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When you're good, you're good, When you're too good, you're bought.

I ’m afraid we have a bit of bad news.
This is the last issue oiMacAddict as you
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Bill made our parent
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suggested that we were secredy working for
Bill because we put Internet Explorer on The
Disc: You were right!)

Naturally, now that our souls belong to
Bill (oops, Mr. Gates, sir) we’re going to
tweak the focus of the magazine just a tad.
Starting next issue, we’re changing our
name to WinAddict, we’re going to run lots
of articles that, say, compare word proces-
sors or tell you how to perform SQL queries
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The Disc. We’ll also have to tone down our
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name to Windy and we’ll even try to conr
vince you that Bill Gates is super-cool.

Bill made our parent com-
pany, Imagine Publishing, an
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talking Big Bucks here.

Except for Kathy Tafel, the only
one among us who has any morals
whatsoever, the rest of MacAddict
team is sticking with the new maga-
zine. As I type this, David is busy
learning the joys of device drivers as
he tries to insM a video card into his
Windows PC, Judy is wandering
around chanting repeatedly, “It’s the
words that count, not the platform.”
Nikki and Dan are trying to figure
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of this, and Mark and Wade are
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of making them anyway.” Adds Wade,
“It’s about time everyone around
here had to memorize a bunch of
inane commands. Real men work
harder, not smarter.”

Naturally, Ken and Adam will
continue to produce the magazine on
Macs. No art department in the world
uses Windows-based PCs to do design
and page layout — not the one at PC
Work, not the one at PC Computing,
not the one at PC Magazine, and not
even the one at boot.

April fools! (Ha!) Did we get
you? Microsoft didn’t really buy
MacAddict. But the scary thing is that
it could just hke it could buy any
number of companies or products.
And it’s only when you envision how a
large corporation’s actions might
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understand why Microsoft evokes
such strong passion in Mac addicts.

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joke. — Cheryl England

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On the February 1997 disc, we mis-
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This Month

We love your stories, your comments, your
jokes. We only wish we had more space to
run all of your marriage proposals, Mulgent
praise, and sensitive criticism. Write to us at:
MacDudes, MacAddic^ 150 North Hill Drive,
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tamer service department at 415-468-2500.

Oh, Great

Your litde thumbs up guy looks a lot
like Ross Perot — ^Nm Giesmann

Not only am I a techno-geek, Mac-Freek,
but I am also a Bio-geek. I couldn’t help but
notice that you are using a cockroach as an
icon for a bug. BBBZZZ, wrong answer.
Cockroaches are not bugs, they are orthopter-
ans, the same order as grasshoppers and
crickets. I would suggest, to he biologically
correct, that you cruise through the Peterson
Field Guide — Insects or surf the Net for an
insect page (there are several) and find a

SIGHTED

! War Is Hell

Tired of the Mac-bashing he’s been exposed to
recently, Daniel Miller dreamed up this image of
a lone Mac beating back the enemy. Although we
doubt you’ll actually catch this battle in your neigh-
borhood anytime soon, it is kind of nice to imagine
a world where the tough-guy Mac is a hero.

Daniel brought his
vision to life with
Fractal Design’s
Ray Dream Studio
and Adobe Photo-
shop. It will soon
be posted on a
Ray Dream users
forum at <http://
www.dram.org/
rd/rdnewsub/
html>.

picture of some true bugs for your bug icon.
Just for the record, true bugs are the order
hemiptera. I have a few suggestions of bugs
you might want to find: stink bug, assassin bug,
and ambush bug. I know these particular bugs
won’t be as famifiar to people as a cockroach,
but I think their names are quite fitting for
your purpose. — ^Kevin Johnson

Yes

Have I been in the “Letters” section yet?
— ^Ed Brown, Bolingbrook, JL

I am about to buy one of those sexy little
Performa 6400s. Three weeks after I get it, is
there going to be sometliing better that I will
wish I had waited for? — ^Amy Smith

You know the fittle icons of a disc that
say “Find A Demo of...on The Disc”? Well,
could put one next to a picture of the new
PowerBook 1400 and include a demo
model with my next issue? — ^Sean Sullivan
You're in luck! Check out page 26!

You Mean There
Are More of You?

This is in response to Paul’s letter about
how he thinks he likes rats, Paul! You are one
of us! Come to us! We will done, as a band of
rat lovers should! It is OK to have a liking for

rats! They are wonderful, fabulous, fantastico
animals! Actually, they are so wonderful that
they whoop hamsters’ butts just as much as
the Mac whoops the PC. — Sara Ulsher

No! No! Not That!

If you guys name one more CD MacAddict,
I may be forced to kill you .. , .Those of us who
use disk catalogers are going to come to your
house, tie you down, and make you watch as
/ we slowly erase every one of your preference
■ files. — Patrick Keuy

Geez, ok^, we give. Starting this month,
we're giving each disc its own special
name. Now stop complaining.

Oh, You Want
Inforraation?

First, I would like to say pneumonoultra-
mircroscopicsiulicovalcanoconiosis, but I
can’t. . .it hurts too much. Second, I would
like to enquire about your “MacAddict World
News” article 0an/97, p6l).

Under Marketing Genius, are we suppo
to be able to read this, or are we just goi
to have to wait to get Hancock’s telepathi
powers, or did you forget to put the pic
behind the text box?

Enquiring minds want to know!
— ^D. Byron Teichroew

Oops! Here you go: "•Macs will make sig-
nificant inroads into China with Motorola
clones and the new Appie input solution,
•^ple wiU let aU schools upgrade to
^^TCP 2.0.6 jbr fiee. •People in Ohio will
quit calUng Macs "Apples." •The PowerPC
Platform (PPCP) acronym wiU be dropped
in favor of the steadfast CHRP. •Power
Confuting will relea^ a popular coffee-

I like the way you predicted Gil Ameho
would be on the cover of Forbes. So...can you
tell me when my back-ordered Performa
6400 will arrive? — ^Bruce Doig
Geez, we'renotGod

The Way We Were...

My most memorable Apple surprise hap-
pened over three years ago when I bought a

10 MacADDICT

Performa 550 (big mistake). I finally got
around to filling in the registration card a few
days later and after cringing in preparation to
lick that disgusting glue seal, I was pleasantly
shocked at the sweet taste of apples. How
ironic that one of Apple Computer’s most bril-
hant actions was putting apple-flavored glue
on the seal of a Performa registration card.
—Kris ‘33MHz 030’ Thoi£

The Nose Knows

I just received the January
’97 issue and it doesn’t SMELL
like the other ones. Did they
run out of Downy fabric soft-
ener? — Corbett Enders
Get this— you're right about
the smell. Seems they
switched to the unscented
Doumy! (Yes, we're serious. )

Nutcases!

Hee, hee... hello there,

MacAddict gurus. . .here I am, in a dark cor-
ner, the fight from my l4-inch i^ple monitor
glaring upon my face’s features. , .1 have been
here for a month now. . .my December issue,
well, . .hee, hee. . .it never came. My only con-
tact to the outside world. . . my trusty Quadra,
My only sustenance. . . pages from PC ms^a-
zines (the ink, ever so tasty)... and a hose
connected to an outside faucet. Aye, the cor-
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MacAddict. . .hee, hee. . .no reviews, no con-
tests, no free CD. . .my fife is but a hole. , .the
day my January issue arrives will be my

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...you realize your Macintosh is worth
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awakening. . .but until then. . .hee, hee. . .the
dark seems awfully nice. — Ryan Bruels,
From the Corner

My CD-ROM IS CRACKED! The perky
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contest spot, the cool shareware, the neato
icon picture in the window, THEY ARE
GONE! ALL GONE! WHAT SHALL I DO?! I
waited by the mailbox all week when the
mail came to see if the m^ was here yet, and
when it finally arrived, I
looked it over: the magazine,
the CD. . .OH NO! It’s cracked!
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HELP ME —John Wnus, San Diego, CA

Thanks for the Tip

I came across a newspaper article fi-om
The Columbian that made me smile and I
think that you will appreciate it. The article
talks about a woman who was sent to a state
hospital for evaluation after she had been
charged with attempting to stab her husband
to death. (Obviously this is not the part that
made me smile.) When deputies were called
to the scene she threatened to kill one of them,
then later told him that the secret of fife “was
the legalization of marijuana and the use of
Macintosh computers.” Perhaps this is what
Apple has been waiting for: an ad campaign
promoting Macs as the secret of fife, although
I don’t think the connection with drugs would
go down very well. — Jane Leonard

Man, oh man! Whatever you do, don’t eat
something greasy... and then decide to read
yom MacAddict. Ink smears like Tammy Faye’s
eye makeup. I just smeared page 8 of the
January issue. Oh well, nothing better to gripe
about at 2:02 a.m. — ^Laura, New York, NY

Code Name: Clever

I went to Best Buy yesterday (the place that
has the largest selection of Macs in my neigh-
borhood) and found the Performa 6400/200
unlocked so I opened the At Ease Setup control
panel and found that the password was “family-
macintosh.” I checked at other computer
stores and found that the password was the
same. Knowing this, you can add your own
access name at your favorite store (none of the
salespeople know anything about the Macs
anyway). —Jonathan Bringhurst, Segane, Pa

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He’s Got a Point
(At Last)

Is one’s ability to use a Mac a measure of
one’s intelligence? I think it is. Example, my 4-
year-old nephew is able to identify the SCSI
ports, knows what a hard drive is, and knows
how to run certain apps on my Mac. Most
importandy, he knows how to scream, very
loudly, “Long hve L/^ple! Long live the Mad”,
though I don’t know where he learned this. My
2-year-old niece is learning how to use my
Mac, she can say “SCSI,” “Cyberdog,”
''MacAddict'' “^ple rules,” and she runs
away from my sister whenever she wants to
teach her how to use the PC. Now, these are
signs, as any child psych will tell you, of very
advanced inteUigence (obviously, they take
after their unde. . .heh, heh), Anywho, on the
other end is this scum-sucking yuppie who
accosted me while I was reading your mag.
Seems his ex-wife thought it would be nice if
his daughter, who is about six, had a com-
puter. So she buys a Mac and has it delivered
to the scum’s house BUT WITHOUT SOMEONE
TO HELP SET IT UP! (Dramatic music here.)
He spends the weekend trying to figure out
what goes where. After numerous calls to
Apple tech support, which at times he found
quite stimulating, he finally gave up and left to
drink with his buddies. So, Monday he spots
me reading MacAddict and offers me $50 an
hour to install his Mac. I’m thinking. I’ll take
my time and throw all this mumbo jumbo at
him and walk away with $200. But when we
get to his house, the computer is up and run-
ning. He can’t figure out ^at happened, until
his daughter comes downstairs and says that
Mom dropped her off after school, she found
the Mac and didn’t think he’d mind if she set

O n the February disc, we included a
font called Smoothplate after getting
permission from the author to use it.
Problem is, the author had downloaded the
font from the internet, tweaked it slightly,
and then reposted it. Bigger problem Is, the
font that was on the Internet appears to be a
pirated version of Emigre Graphics’

Template Gothic. If you like Smoothplate/
Template Gothic and want to continue using
it, then please do the right thing and pur-
chase the font from Emigre (916-451-4344,
< http://www.emigre.com > ).

it up. He stood there with this stupid look on
his face as she went on to explain how she
helped her teacher set up some Macs at
school, and how fun and easy a Mac is to use,
and how she wants to be a graphic designer
when she grows up, which is what I think
made him pass out. So I gave her a few Apple
stickers, taught her the “Long live Apple! Long
hve the Mac!” battle cry, and walked out of the
house, perhaps not $200 richer, but damn
proud that children are stiU our greatest
resource. LONG LIVE APPLE! LONG LIVE THE
MAC! — ^Reuben E. Reynoso

Oy! Such a Deal!

Here is another copy of our program
Multimedia Guitar: Guitar Shop Volume 1.
Now the pressure is on! I’ve sent you two
copies, and I’m only asking for one review!
What a bargain! — James C. Companato, Red
Door Interactive, St. Charles, MO
James, we’ll review it just as soon as we
find a guitar-playing Mac addict who can
write. Now where’d we put Lyle’s number?

I have a few ideas for BookCovers for the PowerBook 1400:

- A.

I ood Covers. After placing the 1400
I on your lap, the cover turns a color
that reflects your state of mind. Each color
suggests a certain type of program to run.
This could also tie in with the Labels
Control panel. For example:

GREEN: Crank out a spreadsheet.

RED: Check for errors in the spreadsheet.
BLUE: Type love letter to significant other.
GRAY: Get losti You’re a Windoze user...

^Airbag Covers: I read about a guy who
ran over his laptop with a truck.

Dream Covers: activated in sleep
mode. Ever wonder what your Mac is
up to when it’s suspended?

Will Work for Food Covers: may be
necessary after blowing your life
savings on that snazzy active-
matrix model.

Hot Plate Covers: to grill that Cuban
sandwich you’ve been thinking about
since 9:30 this morning. The AC
adapter may be needed for this one.

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Rapid reader response team delivers superphat disc with upgraded style.

Take a tour through Drawing
Discoveries, The Tick, Myth,
SmartSound, and more.

Turn to this screen to find
programs and files men-
tioned in the magazine.
Whenever you see a disc
icon in print, you’ll know to
come here on the CD.

SHAREWARE

Here you’ll find enough
shareware and freeware
to satisfy even the most
demanding hard disk’s
appetite. Come here to
turn your machine into
a big Mac!

Use this handy jumping
point to get to any other
screen on The Disc.

L ast month we promised you reno-
vations. This month we prove we
mean what we say when we say

Your special connection to
MacAddicts Web site. No
more Microsoft Internet
Explorer unless you really
want it (details on p 24 ).

This helpful screen
is available on all
five major screens.
All controls are
carefully explained.

what we mean. In addition to the

pulsating eggs (we like our Easter
eggs in plain sight— Ha!) on the
first screen, we have finally
named The Disc (this month’s is
MacAddictS), which will make all of you
disc catalogers happy (we promise to
change it to MacAddictQ next month, too).
And — get a load of this-^e actually let
you choose your Web browser to access
the Internet links. And you thought your
letters were going into a cosmic void. — KT

1 . Pop The Disc into your
CD-ROM drive.

2 * Double-click the Start Here
icon for your System.

3 « Have fun!

REQUIREMENTS

Any Mac can access the shareware, demos, and
System software from the Finder. Accessing the full
CD-ROM Interface requires 12MB of real RAM with
System 7.1 or earlier; 16MB of real RAM with System
7.5 or fater.

14 MacADDICT

You Have a Problem?

W hat! You need help? Well, If
your superphat disc is
mangled, warped, broken, or oth-
erwise disturbed, you can get a
replacement from Imagine’s cus-
tomer service. We’ve set up a spe-
cial page on our Web site where
you can order one <http://www.
macaddict.com/info/service.
html>, or you can call them
directly at 415-468-2500. If you
can’t install anything, or get disk
errors, do the same.

If you have another problem
with The Disc, please stop by

<http://www.macaddict.com/
cdrom> before you send us
e-mail. If there isn’t a solution
there, then please let us
know about it at <cdrom@
macaddict.com >.

If you’re having problems
with System software, we recom-
mend calling the good folks at
800-SOS-APPL. They’ll be more
than happy to help you.

And now, the fine print. Read It.

MacAddIct is not responsibls tf your computer explodes efter using
The Disc. Wo have tested the contents of The Disc, but that is no
guaramee that the software you choose to install will be compatible.

Learn how a computer works with Digital Lab!

D astardly Tom Hale scrambled Enter this code on the Web site for
the NeXT logo into 16 pieces! your chance to win Digital Lab. Find
The nerve of sorne people. Help put out alf about this spiffy prbgram
the logo back together again, so
Apple can fit the
pieces into Rhapsody,

When you pop in the
CD-ROM, look for a
secret hot spot by
clicking all over the
first screen. You’ll be
automagically trans-
ported to a hidden
area 6f The Disc.

When you solve the
puzzle, the CD-ROM
will give you a code.^.

T o find immediate information from
our sponsors, go to the Index
(Optron*click any help screen). Or you
can wart until you see a message from
them In the lower-right*hand comer of
the main screen. Clicking on the mes-
sage causes a TV screen to slide down
from the top of the page, showcasing
more Information. Sponsors can also
be accessed from the main window in
the Finder.

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America Online offers access to
the world of online news and informa-
tion, interactive magazines, finance,
entertainment, e-mail, free software,
shopping, and more. With a point and a
dick, you can explore the vast resources
of ffie Internet. Sign on and receive 15
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Marathon Infinity contains "Blood
Tides of Lh'owon," a brand-new 30-level
scenario, “Forge," Bungle’s own power-
ful Map Editor, and "Anvil,” a single tool
for easy modification of shapes, sounds,
and physics models.

WAV— The mart Baneratlon Desittop

801-785-2115

http://www.dharbor.com

WAV is the first ‘Net-enabled com-
ponent word processor.,,that works the
way you do. WAV's clever interface pro-
vides seamless and immediate access
to other OpenDoc, Netscape, and Java
components. Aside from the ability to
contain parts, WAV can also be embed-
ded into other OpenDoc parts.

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a fourth-generation Psionic War
Messiah recently released from cryo-
genic imprisonment With no memory
of his illustrious heritage, Arman has
few clues to his true mission: save his
people, vanquish the evil occult group
known as the Black Brethren, and utter-
ly destroy the Dark Being they worship.
Only then can he reclaim his Psionic
crown and unite his followers.

Lefeter Protiuctions— fleunlon

717-697-1378

http://www.leisterpro.com

Reunion is a genealogy software
program that helps you document,
store, and display genealogy informa-
tion: names, dates, facts, notes,
sources of information, and digitized
pictures. Reunion automatically creates
common genealogy reports, charts,
and forms, as well as birthday calen-
dars, mailing lists, questionnaires, and
indexes, it even calculates relation-
ships, ages, and life expectancies.
Reunion also displays and prints large,
high-resolution, graphic wall charts.

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We asked dozens of solitaire fanat-
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games and a brand-new Interface for
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http://www.earthlink.net

TotalAccess is Earthlink's com-
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package. It includes Netscape
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access software, and everything need-
ed to register tor complete Internet
access in fewer tiian five minutes. After
the $25 set-up fee, unlimited access Is
provided for $19.95 per month.
'Round-the-clock tech support is
provided via an 800 number.

http://www.europasoftware.com

Frustrated by Bookmarks? Web
Quick tracks every page you visit, and
automatically organizes them by site.
It lets you create custom topics— and
keeps them all at your fingertips with
handy pop-up menus. Web Quick even
converts e^dsting Bookmarks. No won-
der MacWEEK calls it "the first Web
utility that is essential"!

ST IntBPactivB— ZPC

http://www.gtint 0 ractive.com

ZPC places the player as Arman,

800-454-1900

http://www.sonicdesktop.com

Now you can quickly create
music or sound effects customized to
your exact specifications. This revolu-
tionary new software makes the Job
easy while always giving you profes-
sional results. Try the demo on the
enclosed CD and you'll see why
SmartSound” is the Absolute
Easiest Way To Create Customized
Professional Quality Soundtracks.

UMAX— 8iAierMacS900

IUMAX1

888-232-UMAX;

http:/www.supermac.com

The SuperMac S900 system was
specifically designed with high-end func-
tionality to meet the needs of creative
design and production professionals.
We kept all the best things you like— the
familiarity and ease-of-use of the Mao OS
and compatibility with all your favorite
software. And, we wrapped it all up with
the raw power of a 604 PCI-based
design said delivered it at a price that
can’t be beat Many unique features of
the new S900 have been designed to
eliminate performance bottlenecks that
have long troubled the market.

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the disc

T his month we bring you
more than 20 terrific
demos ranging from games
to Live Objects to kids’ stuff.
See movies, build a home
space, and feed your head
with recreational software.
Remember, demos are not
the full product. Many fea-
tures from the program are
disabled: Image-editing pro-
grams usually add a water-
mark to the screen image,
and games generally allow
you into only a few levels.

1. Drawing
Discoveries

Start your tour with
Brainstorm’s Drawing Dis-
coveries. This wonderful pro-
gram shows kids step-by-step
how to draw various animals
who live In Africa. This demo
gently guides children through
the process, encouraging
them with a warm, motherly
voice that they can draw a lion
in any way they like. This Mac
addict was able to follow
along with the directions on
the left-hand side and produce
(on the right-hand side), for
the first time In her life, some-
thing that indeed resembled a
mighty feline. Interspersed
throughout the tutorial are
factoids about the animals.
For instance, did you know
that lions’ manes grow darker
with age? Note: You may need

18 MacADDfCT

to inspect your monitor for fin-
gerprints after using Drawing
Discoveries. The instructor en-
courages using fingers as a
guide for making curves.

4. SmartSound

2. The Tick

This interactive demo of Inverse
Ink’s Tick vs. the Uncommon
Cold Includes two pages from
the CD-ROM. Click on each
panel to activate the digitized
movie from the TV show. When
you see a Tick cursor in a
panel, click to find hidden
animations.

3. Myth

Bungle’s carnage is not
for everyone, and Myth
is particularly graphic.

But for the brave of
heart who can stom-
ach—no, really enjoy —
the digital gore, our Myth
preview is sure to please.
First read our interview with
developer Jason Jones in
“PowerPlay.” Then pop in
The Disc to browse a slide
show and three QuickTime
movies. No, it’s not an inter-
active demo — you want
them to finish the game first,
don’t you?

This freakin’ awesome pro-
gram composes sequences
of digital audio suitable for
use In multimedia produc-
tions, Web pages, and just
about any other place you
need a beat. The Maestro
feature interviews you to
determine your require-
ments, then composes a
piece. You can tweak the
tunes in the editor. No music
reading, perfect pitch, or mix-
ing savvy required.

5* We packed The Disc with ?
many other fine demonstration ^
products. You’ll find them i
through the Finder, not the [
MacAddlct disc interface, \
Just double-click the Demos i
folder in the main window to ?
be blown away. Kids, don’t {
miss Sierra On-Line’s Dr. J
Brain, in which you must guide
a beaver through building a ^
dam while navi- \
gating around ^
logs and turtles, I
and avoiding a ]
nasty guy with \
an evil laugh J
who destroys f
your work.

W e want to hear from
you! Submit your
tunes to be included as a
soundtrack on The Disc.
See your name in lights by
sending your recordings
and a photo (In any digital
format— no tape cassettes,
please) to: Music Mavens,
MacAddict, 150 North Hill
Drive, Suite 40, Brisbane,
CA 94005. If we like it, we’ll
use it on a future disc.
Please do not send us the
theme to “The Simpsons”!
All recordings must be your
own original material, which
you made from scratch and
haven’t yet published. You
will retain all rights to your
work and just give us per-
mission to use it on The
Disc. Your music, of course,
must be made on a Mac!

B ill Groesbeck of
Billings, Montana,

decoded January’s CD-
ROM contest. Bill was over-
joyed to win Opcode’s
Musicshop 2.0 with a MIDI
translator. Hopefully tuning
up his musical skills will
keep him warm: It was 70
degrees below zero (with
wind chill) when Bill found
out that was the winner. Bill:
Remember to keep your
Mac nice and toasty warm,
or the electrons will all con-
geal together. Turn to page
15 for this month’s contest.

Digital Images In.

Panasonic Introduces TruPhoto^*^, the digital photo printer.

The new Panasonic TmPhoto printer creates real photographs from
your PC or Macintosh® computer. Input an image into your computer
from photo CDs, floppy discs, digital cameras, the Internet or
scanners. Use your graphics program to manipulate the image,
then TmPhoto will print out a bright, brilliant 3"x 5” glossy
photograph. TmPhoto uses no toner or ink; it produces real photos
on Thermo-Autochrome paper. MGI PhotoSuite™ for TmPhoto
is included, so you can use your computer to retouch, crop
and fix your photographs. And even create special effects,
baseball cards, birthday cards, calendars and more. There are lots
of ways to get digital images into your computer, but to get real
photographs out, you need TmPhoto from Panasonic.

Real

Pliotos Out.

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CLImax’s window, which
can appear and disappear at
the touch of a key, floats above
all other windows.

ScriptMenu

ScrIptMenu is an underpro-
moted, yet very useful, Apple
utility that places an iconic
menu next to the Guide and
Application menus. Although
scripts can be stored any-
where, such as in the Launcher
Items for access via the
Launcher, scripts can be written
and stored in a special Scripts
folder within the System Folder
for instant access from the
Script Menu from within any
application. — Stefan Anthony

W elcome back to
MacAddicfs serial-
ization of David Pogue’s
Silicon Valley thriller. Find
part two of Hard Drive in
the Finder at the root level
of The Disc, in which our
feisty heroine, Ellen, gloats
about 50 percent college
discounts on Macintoshes.
Ahh, those were the days.

F ind all kinds of spiffy
shareware, freeware,
beerware, e-mailware, and
postcardware in this section
of The Disc. We contin-
ually strive to make
the MacAddict
disc reflect what
you, the viewing
public, want.
This month some
shareware Isn’t
even in an installer!
Please send your sug-
gestions for the MacAddict
superphat disc to <cdrom@
macaddict.com >.

If those bunnies on the main
screen are just a little too sac-
charin-sweet for you, then
KILL THEM! Bunny Killer has
a very simple interface.
Twenty bunnies hop across
the screen. Your cursor
becomes a cross hair, and
clicking on a bunny kills It.
Cartoon violence Is funny, but
remember kids, killing real
rabbits is sick and mean.

20 MacADDICT

COMMUnCATION

Quid Pro Quo

Formerly known as WebCenter,
Quid Pro Quo 1 .0 is an alterna-
tive to the relatively few,
high-priced commercial Web
servers for the Mac. Quid Pro
Quo provides Open Transport-
native performance and multi-
threaded management of
connections, which makes it
capable of handling tens of
thousands of hits in a day. Quid
Pro Quo fully supports all of
the Webstar conventions for
CGI handling and password
access. To round out its
features, it provides server-
side includes— to automatically
Insert the current date and time,
for example — and memory-
based file caching to speed
access for clients. You can even
drop in WebStar-compatibfe
plug-ins! —WA

can be configured to launch a
second program for you,
such as your favorite bookmark
utility or a Web page analyzer.
This is done by placing the
application you want launched
by ScriptSynch (or an alias
of it) into the ScriptSynch
Aliases folder, which is placed
in the Preferences folder
when ScriptSynch is installed.
Although ScriptSynch was orig-
inally intended to be used with
AppleScript applets (hence the
name ScriptSynch), it can be
used to open any file, folder,
alias, or application.

Not only can ScriptSynch
also launch applications when
an application quits, it is polite
enough to quit the application it
launched when the first appli-
cation quits.

CLimax

CLImax is a unique utility that
offers the graphical Mac OS a
powerful command-line inter-
face (CLI) that can directly con-
trol the Mac with AppleScript
(see the AppleScript how-to
in our April issue, p88, to
learn more about AppleScript).
Through its floating window,
CLimax can send AppleScript
commands to applications,
target background applica-
tions for scripting events, and
give you an easy way to
switch applications.

RIN AND GAMES

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ScriptSynch

ScriptSynch is a shareware
extension that synchronizes
application launches. When
an application is launched,
Netscape
Navigator for
example,

ScriptSynch

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And, with Nisus Writer 5.0’s Internet Config support, you can now open
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Nisus Writer 5.0 is light years ahead of the competition. It’s the first major
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T hroughout this sweet-
smelling bundle of tasty
Macintosh Information, you
will see a funny-looking
circular icon filled with
whooshy spirals. That icon
means that you can find
spectacular software on The
Disc that’s related to the
words you read. As you flip
through the Reviews sec-
tion, chances are this icon
refers to a product demo.
Articles in the How To
section usually are
accompanied by
a demo of the

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software men-
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ple documents.

To get the
software off The
Disc and onto
your Mac, go to
the “This Issue”
section on The Disc.
The dial on the left-hand
side of this page switches
between Highlights and
Every Month (just like the
Table of Contents a few
pages back). To turn the
dial clockwise, click the right-
hand side of the dial (and vice
versa to go the other way).
The middle column lists the
article titles. Clicking an arti-
cle title flips up, in the right
column, a list of software to
install. Click on the name of a
piece of software to get its
description.

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Turn to page 38 to find
out what’s NeXT for your
operating system. Then,
come back and slip in The
Disc to dress up your Mac in
black. Your sleek new

You’ll first need to change
the way your windows look.
You can do this with either
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adds a small icon to a NeXT
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Only when contemplating

icons does this Mac addict
shed tears that Apple bought
NeXT. We hope that Apple
will make Rhapsody look like
the MacOS and perform like
Openstep. But then, we’re
icon snobs.

This month’s disc includes 10
demos of programs that are
reviewed in this issue. This
includes the CD-ROMs and
Kidz Stuff sections that fall
after our regularly scheduled
programming.

Snapz Pro

Woo Hool The Mac finally has
an easy-to-use VRML space
builder. Just make boxes, and
then drag colors and textures
onto them. When you’ve made
your home space, tell us
about it!

HOWTO

Use OpenDoc

Every Live Object — and a
few dead ones — ^you’ll need
to follow along with Dan
Turner’s OpenDoc tutorial.
One caveat — if you need
OpenDoc itself, you’ll need to
reach for last month’s disc.

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This nifty utility from
Ambrosia greatly improves
on the standard Command-
Shift-3 screenshot capabili-
ties of MacOS 7.5.x. While
MacOS 7.6 adds some more
screenshot filters, you’ll still
need Snapz Pro if you want
to save your images as any-
thing other than PICTs. Since
we here at MacAddict enjoy
helping others reach nirvana,
here’s another koan for you.
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of a screenshot utility?

Virtual Home
Space Builder

What do you get when you
cross people from MIT’s
Media Lab and the Rhode
Island School of Design?
Vibrating fruit! Although you
can’t see it here, this fruit
is really jiggling around.
Curious? Just check out the
ThinkFish demo on
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how 3D is changing.
To work the demo,
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with a 3D style from
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C ontinuing our occasional
series of Mac-oriented
surfing expeditions, we turn
this month to the task of
navigating the sprawling
labyrinth of Web sites
known as <http://
^ WWW. apple.

com>. Having
discussed the
quest for soft-
ware updates in
some detail (see
“The Web Site,”
Dec/96, p22, and

FIND THESE ITEMS
on our Apple Links
page at <http://
www.macadciict.
com/links/apple,
html>.

Feb/97, p26), we’ll con-
centrate here on information
and helpful resources.

Advice and Consent

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START HERE for best results.

Having taken a fair amount
of flak for the haphazard organi-
zation of its Web presence,
Apple has tried to arrange its
sites in a somewhat logical fash-
ion. The company’s Web sites
are grouped into seven broad
categories, ranging from prod-
uct info to tech support to cor-
porate Info. For an overview of
the organization du jour, plus
a powerful sitewide search
engine, consult Apple’s Findlt
page — highly recommended as
a bookmark.

If you’re fishing for informa-
tion on a specific topic, the Findlt
page’s search engine Is a good
place to start. If you’re looking
for marketing information on a

YOUR STARTING POINT for tech
support, Apple’s whimsically
named customer support site.

specific Apple product, see
AppleFacts Online; the Mac OS
Software & Hardware Guide,
meanwhile, offers a searchable
database of thousands of
third-party products. For trouble-
shooting help with an Apple
product you already own, the
famous Apple Tech Info Library
awaits your command.

Speaking of tech support,
as we go to press, Apple just
launched the promising Tech
Support Online, a collection of
answers to common questions,
pointers to important software
updates, and troubleshooting
discussion forums. The discus-
sion forums are populated by
other users rather than by Apple
employees, so you may not find
answers for your more esoteric
questions— you may have bet-
ter luck with a Usenet posting.

ALL THE LATEST PROPAGANDA,
straight from The Source. Gil
says, “Don’t hurt me!”

Perhaps you came in
search of hot news rather
than tech support. On those

occasions when Apple has just
bought a new operating
system, lost a couple hundred
million bucks, or announced
some vague strategic alliance
that will yield dividends by the
year 2015, you’ll find the gory
details at The Source. This
collection of press releases and
reference material provides
everything you need to play
armchair journalist.

Light Reading

Once you’ve answered those
burning questions, you can
waste some more time
browsing Apple’s massive
volumes of information. The
Technology & Research
pages will steer you to dedi-
cated sites for most of
Apple’s snazzy technologies,
from the QuickTime Media
Layer to Internet technolo-
gies to the Mac OS. Burrow
around in here for a while,
and you’ll discover more
about QuickDraw 3D than
you ever hoped to know.

For a morale boost, take
a gander at the Why
Macintosh? site. As well as
facts, figures, inspirational
stories, and other resources
for the Mac advocate, you’ll
find information on ordering
free Apple-branded merchan-
dise with which to display

PLAY THE NERD with Apple’s col-
lection of developer Technotes.
We particularly recommend the
dogcow-related ones.

your loyalty to the world.

The adventurous Mac
addict can geek out at Apple
Developer World. Although
most of this material will go
over the heads of nonprogram-
mers, you’ll be able to amaze
your friends and amuse your
family after reading a few
issues of Apple Directions and
following it up with some
choice Technotes.

But don’t leave without visit-
ing Dr. Gilbert Amelio: A Man, A
Plan, A Canal — Panama! in
which Apple’s fearless leader
indulges in his love of palin-
dromes. — Mark Simmons

T his month’s disc is
just full of surprises.
On the Super-Special
April Disc, you may select
your very own browser
(the one you use every
day). We are still working
out all of the kinks in
this new technology, but
we’re pretty sure It works.
Would we lie to you?

■flBEsrrifriTnfion
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by clicking any of the tittle
thumbs In the lower right
corner of the Live Wire screen.
Then click the Setup button.

^Web Browser Sbtup;

This setup will enable you lo select
the Web browser of your choice.
Click on the Select button to choose
the location of your Internet browser
application.

iStiSyiRovi’^R

YOU’LL THEN SEE this box.
Click the Select Browser
button, then use the Mac’s
standard file dialog to find and
choose your preferred browser.

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FIND A
DEMO Of the
PowerBook
3400 on
The Disc.

eeling a little jittery as you surf the
Web? Are Web pages just a tad too
jumpy? Well, you’re among many
who feel that their browser has been
on a caffeine rush for just a wee bit too long.

To combat overly technology-enriched
pages from taking over the planet, i^ple and
Sun Microsystems are jointly developing a
new technology, code-named Decaf^^, which
^s to calm the Java hysteria.

Here’s how it works. There are two parts
to Decaf™: language and execution. Devel-
opers can use the Decaf^^ language to write
platform-neutral code.
This means that they can
write their programs
once, and deliver them
on Macs, IBM clones,
and Unix boxes simulta-
neously. One advantage to
using DecaD^ over Java
is that the code generated
is one-eighth as big.
Decaf™ can do this
because Decaf™ compilers generate bit
code instead of byte code.

Once the code is compiled, it’s time to
execute the program. There are two ways

It’s so much
easier to convey
meaning without
ail those pixels
moving around.

UKE OTHER GREAT TECHNffiOGIES, Decaf" has
an easy-to-ldentify logo. To contrast the technol-
ogy of Java, Decaf'*'’s steam has gone cold.

to run a DecaF^ applet. Because DecaF^ is
written to a ‘‘virtui machine,” you can use
Apple’s Mac OS Runtime for DecaF^ to
interpret the applet, or you can deploy
Metrowerks’ just-a-little-late compiler,
which translates the virtual code to native
code. Either way, DecaF^ promises to slow
your machine to an acceptable crawl.

The response from Redmond was typi-
cal. “Microsoft plans to embrace and extend
this promising new Internet technology,”
reads a recent press release. Further,
Microsoft plans to make its own implemen-

tation of DecaF^ that is 50 percent slower
and adds commands not available to other
DecaF^ interpreters. DecaF^ for Windows
95 will, of course, be the sanctioned way
to deliver DecaF^ applets, ^ple and Sun
implemented a 100 percent Decaf™ pro-
gram to fight the insanity.

Web designers are ecstatic at the
announcement. “‘Shocked’ was so 1996,”
complains an anonymous HTMLer, “I’m glad
i^ple is taking the lead in removing the com-
plexity from the Internet.” Another designer
confides, “It’s so much easier to convey
meaning without all those pixels moving
around — and don’t tell anyone, but the
X-Windows feel of Java is so ugly.”

In a related announcement, Metrowerks’
Greg Galanos promised that Codewarrior
for Decaf™ will be in the next version of
its flagship product, Codewarrior Gold.
Galanos claimed that programs already
written in the company’s object-oriented,
framework, PowerPlant, can be ported to
Decaf™ twice as quickly.

Apple promises that Decaf™ will work
interchangeably with live Objects, and the
part that adds this functionality has been
dubbed “Pinto beans.” In zMacAddict taste
test, subjects were unable to tell the differ-
ence between Java beans and Pinto beans.

Before he roused
the rabble at
January’s
Macworld Expo in
San Francisco,
Power Computing
president Steve
Kahng fought
another great fight.
Years earlier, the
giant “King” Kahng
climbed a certain New York City monument,
clinging to his first love, Fay Wray. Let’s hope
his assault on Microsoft is more successful.

Missing Performas Found

L ast Christmas,

Apple Computer
sold 90,000 fewer Performas than
expected, which contributed to the $120
million shortfall in the fourth quarter. We did
some digging and found the awful truth: '
Those 90,000 potential i^ple customers
went into their local Sears hoping to get a
powerfiil PowerPC processor. But they
didn’t leave with one. The “helpful” sales-
people heard the word Performa and
pointed the hopeful parents toward the dish-
washer section, where the misguided shop-
pers picked up Maytag Performas instead of

Where, oh where, could they be?

sexy 6400s. Looks like Maytag’s repairman
will be a little less lonely as confiised kids ask
him where the dinosaurs are.

(jxiiim

MIGHTY MAYTAG CLEANS UP with consumer
confusion. Special thanks to reader Bryan
Bland for cluing us into this scam.

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The nose knows! We’ve collected some of
the sicker smells found in the Macintosh
industry. Scratch the magazine to identify
the smell, then match the smell with its
description. If your nose is better than your
fellow Mac addicts’, you’ll have a chance to
win a superspiffy Surround-smell System.
With this brand-new hardware, games
using the Scent Sprocket will be able to
add odors to their environments. Imagine
not only hearing the splatter and seeing
the gore when you kill your enemies, but
smelling their guts, too! Marathon will never
be the same again. For your chance to win,
enter on our Web site. We’ll pick a winner

1 . Eww! It’s the smell of four 533MHz
Exponential X704s soldered onto a
motherboard with no heat sinks or fan!

2. Ever smell the lint that collects on your
mouse ball?

3. Oops! Smells like Nikki left a case of
floppies sitting out in 100-degree weather.

What About Pink?

And tan, and black

T o help Apple engineers remember
where they fit in under the new OS
strategy (see “Rhapsody OS: The Soul
of the Machine, p38), Apple chief technical
officer Ellen Hancock has mandated the fol-
lowing dress code. Engineers
developing the Mac OS must
wear blue Polo shirts; those
working on Rhapsody must
wear yellow. The lucky few
working on the Mac OS Run-

time for Java get to wear browser
gray. It remains to be seen whether
the rebellious Jolt and Twinkles
crowd will go along with the
scheme. We’ve already seen
T-shirts with this

Evangelists slogan: “Blue +

Yellow = Monkey-

won’t be the only puke Green.” — KT

ones in Polos.

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SPEED CAN KILL

But you get there faster

R emember the Barry Levinson film
Tin Men? Set in 1963, it was about,
among other things, two home-
siding salesmen’s obsession with
the latest Cadfilacs. More specifically, their
tailfins: how high, how big. Well, it’s the
’90s, and we’re well beyond all that. Now
we’re obsessed with important things like
megahertz and Level 2 caches.

Obhgingly, Apple has rolled out its ’97
models, which should all be available now,
and mama, there are speed bumps and new

THIS PHOTO IS NOT REVERSED: Just to be different, the
Power Mac 4400 has its floppy drive on the left.

features to warm the hearts of the most
jaded computer cognoscenti.

Apple seems to have heard both Henry
David Thoreau and consumers alike crying
“Simplify, simplify.” There are now only
four Power Macintosh models — ^the Power
Mac 4400, Power Mac 7300, Power Mac
8600, and Power Mac 9600 — ^which
replace all those that came before. Standing
shghtly on its own is the Power Mac 4400
(about $1,700). Previously available only
in Europe, the Power Mac 4400 comes
complete with a floppy drive on the left
(must be a Euro’ thing), a 200MHz 603e

processor, 16MB of RAM, a 1.2GB hard
drive, an 8X CD-ROM drive, two 12-inch
PCI slots, built-in Ethernet, and 256K of L2
cache. The motherboard in this box is
based on the Tanzania design, which
Motorola co-developed with Apple for its
StarMax line, so the processor isn’t
upgradable. Due to the vagueries of devel-
opment times, the Power Mac 4400 will
ship with System 7.5.3 but will come with a
coupon for a System upgrade for a nominal
fee. This model more or less replaces the
Power Mac 7200 — more, in Aat for a
price within $100 of the Power Mac 7200,
you’ll get a faster and more modern
processor (603e rather than 601); less, in
that you’ll lose one PCI slot. Also, as
of mid-January, the Power Mac 4400
came in $100 lower than its closest clone
competitor, Power Computing’s
PowerBase 200.

The rest of the Power Mac
line, code-named Montana,
use the same motherboards
(Tsunami) as the Power Macs
they replace (the 7600, 8500,
and 9500) but add features,
speed, and a new industrial
design. The Power Mac 7300
takes the place of both the
7200 and 7600; it starts at about $2,300 for
the 180MHz machine and goes up to
$2,800 for the 200MHz screamer. The
Power Mac 7300 uses a 604e processor
and comes with l6 or 32MB of RAM
(expandable to 256MB — the so-called
powerhouse PCs will take only 80MB), a
2GB hard drive, built-in Ethernet, a 12X
CD-ROM drive, three 12-inch PCI slots, and
256 k of nonupgradable L2 cache. One
feature that hasn’t crossed the bridge into
1997 is the Power Mac 7600’s video-in
capability, which was far surpassed by inex-
pensive video boards such as ATI’s Xclaim
VR, anyway. Otherwise, this unit gives you
the power of the Power Mac 8500 for $700

to $900 less, and it bumps up against the
specs of Power Computing’s PowerTower
180 and 200 (the PowerTowers have 512K
i of L2 cache that is upgradable, though) for
about the same price.

The Power Mac 8600 keeps the composite

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love the Power Mac 8600 and 9600.

and S-Video-in and -out
capabilities of the Power
Mac 8500 but comes in
the new “K2” case, shared
with the Power Mac 9600.
(fust to keep the two
straight: The 8600 has
three PCI slots; the 9600
has six). This new design
will thrill anyone who’s
been up to their elbows
trying to install RAM. To get inside, you
simply pop off one side of the case, lay the
unit on its side, open two flip tabs, and up
pivots everything — power supply and all —
leaving as clear a path as one could wish to
the motherboard. (The demonstration of
this feature received thunderous applause at
the press preview.) In addition, the Power
Mac 8600 has a 200MHz 604e processor, an
internal 100MB Iomega Zip drive, and
shares the other good specs of the Power
Mac 7300. And how much would you expect
to pay for this? How about $3,300 to $3,400?
Motorola’s StarMax 4000/200 may edge out
the Power Mac 8600 in price by $100 and
offer five PCI slots, but you don’t get the Zip

Now we’re
obsessed with
important things
like L2 caches
and megahertz.

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QUICICTIME VR 2.0

Our apologies to the
adult Mac addicts who
are pining away for
this neatest of all
gadgets. This
month’s contest is
open only to those
1 2 years of age and
younger. To win
Apple’s eMate 300,
the first in a class of
handheld mobile com-
puters, tell us why you love the
Mac. We’ll judge the entries based
on originality, humor, and practi-
cality. Your entry must be 100
words or fewer (it may include
pictures) and must be postmarked
or e-mailed by April 15, 1997.

We’ll contact the winner and run
results in a future issue. (We must
be able to verify your age.) Send
your best shot to our Web site at
<http://www.macaddict.com> or to
Way-Cool eMate, c/o MacAddict,
150 North Hill Drive, Suite 40,
Brisbane, CA 94005.

Like having eyes in the back of your head

A pple engi-
neers keep
toiling away to put more reality into
virtual reality. QuickTime VR 2.0 is the
newest member of the QuickTime family.
Retaining QTVR’s ability to “see” an area
with a 360 -degree view (as well as zoom in
and out), Apple added the ability to include
3D objects in scenes. You can zoom in and
out on embedded objects, which now can be
set in motion. You also can add hot spots to
objects. Click on a hot spot, and QTW
can invoke an URL, for example.

Version 2.0 also offers a new control
bar and better compression using the
QuickTime Media Layer. Apple made
QuickTime VR 2.0 into an extension,
which means that you can view QTVR
files in most applications that support
QuickTime, including the ubiquitous
SimpleText. The best news about Quick-
Time VR 2.0, however, is that it’s avail-
able for download from Apple’s Web
site. Check out <http://quicktimevr.
apple.com> for the latest.

QuickTune VR has made some new
friends: BeHere (<http://www.behere.
com>) released a camera that easily

creates QuickTime VR panoramas — see
“Cravings,” p35; eVox Productions (<http://
www.vox.com>) is developing a collection of
QTVR clip art allied, wittily enough, Clip VR;
and OliVR (<httpy/www.olivr.com>), a new
company with new compression technology,
has away to progressively render QTVR scenes
so you can look around more quickly. — DR

drive or the video capabilities, you sacrifice
an upgradable processor, and you’re limited
to a maximum of l60MB of RAM.

The King of K2, the Power Mac 9600,
weighs in right around $4,000 (about $200
less than a Power Mac 9500 with no
onboard video) and improves on the 8600
with a 4GB hard drive (though no Zip
drive), 512K of L2 cache, three more PCI
slots, and a new, 4MB IMS Twin TUrbo 128
graphics card. There’s also the Power Mac
96 OO/ 2 OOMP, which adds a second proces-
sor to the motherboard and $900 to the
bottom line. In mid-January, a similarly
equipped 200MHz PowerTower Pro from
Power Computing cost about the same as
the single-processor Power Mac 9600.

Perhaps the nicest feature of all these new
Power Macs is the competitive pricing: The
premium you once had to pay to get the
cachet of the Apple brand seems to have
shrunk. Consider that all these new Power
Macs come with keyboards, Data Viz data
translators, and the Apple Internet Connec-
tion Kit, and you’ll see that you certainly get
more megabang for the buck than ever
before. As for tailfins, well, you may have to
add them on yourself. — DDT

Clone Wars

A pple isn’t the only company introduc-
ing new models for 1997. While the
clone makers aren’t running about as fran-
tically as the sorcerer’s apprentice, a few
speed kicks, bundling, and— this will warm
the hearts of the cheapskates among us —
price cuts are near.

Umax Computer’s news
is speed: 240MHz on a 604e
chip. The S900/240 Is
basically the same as the
S900/225 (Jan/97, p64),

except that it comes with the
E-100 “Extended Perfor-
mance’’ Ultra SCSI/Ethernet
card (previously a $500
option) and Is faster. It still comes with
32MB of RAM, a 2.1GB hard drive, an 8X
CD-ROM drive, 51 2K of nonreplaceable
Level 2 cache, and the SMB IMS Twin Turbo
graphics card. It should run just
less than $5,000. The rest of the S900 line,
and the J and C lines, remain unchanged.
Power Computing’s 1997 news

Includes a new flavor of PowerTower and
lower prices. The flavor is the PowerTower
Pro 250MP (the same ol’ PowerTower Pro
but with two chips) at $5,995, with a twin-
225MHz version running $4,995. Prices on
the existing PowerTower Pro 225 dropped
to $4,295, bundled with a huge software
pack including Macromedia Director and
the Be OS. For those with more modest
needs and less patience.
Power Computing has the
QuickShip PowerBase
package: the unchanged
PowerBase 200 with 16MB
of RAM, 256K of upgrad-
able L2 cache, accelerated
video, an 8X CD-ROM,
a 1.2GB hard drive, a
1 5-inch monitor with speakers, a Global Vil-
lage 28.8Kbps external modem, and a
whole lot of bundled software. For $1 ,995,
this should get to your door 48 hours after
you place your order. For $500 more, the
package will Include a 17-inch monitor,
32MB of RAM, and a 33.6Kbps Global Vil-
lage external modem. — DDT

Price cuts will
warm the hearts
of cheapskates
everywhere.

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Conflict Catcher 4, an award*
winner before It even shipped,
will manage ptug-ins and filters
for individual programs such as
Adobe Photoshop and Netscape
Navigator. The new version will
also display more information
about Individual extensions and
will automatically test for conflicts
In the event of a crash.

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Now Up-to-Date & Contact has
added several one-ciick features:
integration with e<mall (via
Internet ConfIg) so you can send
e*rnail to your contacts, complete
with an e-mail history file; contact
names merge with Microsoft
Word 5, Word 6, or Corel
WordPerfect documents; and
access to the Web to get correct
contact information (via Infoseek
or one of Its partners).

SMARTSOUND f=0R MULTiMEOIA 1.5

SmartSound for Multimedia
allows you to create full sound-
tracks for your multimedia
projects, and now, with version
1.5j it allows you to import
QuickTime movies of any length,
add a soundtrack with a single
click, and re-export your movie
complete with audio. SmartSound
1.5 also provides support fpr
RealAudio, IMA compression;
and automatic looping.

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THE APPLE CLUB PULLS A
FAST ONE

And may get away with it!

I

I f a state highway patrol started a group
whose members could cruise the nation’s
freeways as though they were on a German
I autobahn, without fear of getting a ticket,
would the averse lead-foot shell out an annual
fee of $ 19.99 to put the pedal to the metal? Yep.

With the Apple Club, Apple is hoping that
speed freaks will pay that exact price for ultrafast
connections to high-speed servers available only

updating software and detecting viruses; Grolier’s
Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science Fiction; and
Arome’s Vegetarian Delights CD-ROM cookbook.

But wait, before you get too excited, here’s
what you don't get when you sign up for the
club. System upgrades, such as System 7.6, are
not available through Software Central, the club
members’ online warehouse of Mac goodies.
You will still have to purchase all major

10 aues-paymg, passwora-proieciea cmo
members. This privileged pack can use its
1 “diamond lane” access to more quickly

1 download Apple System software utilities,

* updates, patches, and extensions. Members

i also receive electronic newsletters such as

Services

Sg Information Alley and Guy Kawasaki’s

|i IRII IIIIIHMI

from Dr. Gil, special deals on Apple goods
and services, a 60-day offer to buy AppleCare
coverage at a 20 percent discount, a free CD-
ROM, and their name tossed in a quarterly draw-
ing for ^ple hardware and T-shirts. Sounds
good on paper, but how does it work?

Fire up Netscape Navigator 2.0 or later (you
can also use America Online version 3.0 or
Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.1 or later, if that’s
what you prefer) and join the
club. We did. Curious to see
whether the Apple Club really
offered the speed and con-
venience promised in the
brochures, we downloaded a
large file from the Apple Club
site and then downloaded the
same file from several of Apple’s mirrored FTP
sites. Thrifty shoppers should note that at press
time, some of Apple’s public (translate: free) sites
offered significantly faster download times than
Apple’s souped-up members-only servers. Both
<%.info.apple.com> and <ftp4.info.apple.com>
downloaded QuickDraw 3D version 1.5 at about
3 OK per second, whereas the ^ple Club crawled
in at around 24K per second.

Apple also hopes to entice potential club
members by giving a free CD-ROM simply for
signing up. But instead of offering general-
purpose CD-ROMs such as dictionaries, atlases,
or encyclopedias, Apple provides members with
an odd assortment of three titles that includes
the Apple Club CD-ROM, which can be used for

WHY WAIT? Join the Apple Club today for mediocre
access to a meager collection of overpriced services.

Dissatisfied?
Want your money
back? No dice.

System upgrades from a software reseller.

If you’re looking for Mac tech support,
driving in the diamond lane won’t get you any fast
answers, either. You’ll still have to did 800-SOS-
APPL for the solutions to your more personal
problems. The Club Support branch of the Apple
Qub house only lets you e-mail Apple with ques-
tions that relate to hardware or
software sold through the Apple
Club. At press time, however, the
Apple Club had nothing on its
virtual shelves to sell.

Dissatisfied with the service?
Want your money back? No dice.
You can cancel your service (in
fact, Apple holds the right to fold the service at
any time without refunding your cash), but once
you’ve parted with your payment, you can kiss
those bills goodbye.

Theoretically, the Apple Club is a good
idea — ^info addicts get fast access to the informa-
tion and supplies they need, as well as quick and
convenient subscriptions to a slew of Apple press
releases and newsletters. Unfortunately, the
Apple Club does not always offer faster service
than what can be found at Apple’s public sites,
prompting the age-old question, “Why pay more
for less?” In other words, if you’re not on a
need-it-now basis, the overall benefits of this not-
so-fast-access service are probably not worth
your $20 donation to Apple’s bottom line. — NE

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DVD AT LAST

Apple leads the way

D VD-ROM is coming to desktop comput-
ers, and Apple has made sure that it will
be there on arrival. The DVD (Digital
Versatile Disc) format has been talked about
for a few years, but the first consumer
DVD-ROM drives (similar to a CD-ROM drive)
are just now on the market. Apple was the first
vendor to show a prototype DVD-ROM drive
running on a personal computer when it
demonstrated a trial product, the Encyclopedia
of World Heritage that Sumeria
created fi*om five of its natural-
history products, at Comdex in
late 1995 . Apple has been
working steadily on DVD tech-
nology since then.

Analysts predict that DVD-
ROM drives will replace
CD-ROM drives in a couple of
years. Digital versatQe discs
look just like CD-ROMs but
can hold much more data —
currently up to 4GB of data
(the specification allows for as
much as 17GB of data on a single disc) . They
can hold digital video, computer data (like a
CD-ROM) and higher-than-CD-quality digital
audio. Future versions (available after 1998)
will be rewriteable and erasable. The drives
run at a minimum of lOX (compared with a
IX minimum for CD-ROM drives), which
allows high-quality video playback.

Minor Repairs

Put your fire extinguisher away. There's no
need for panic. PowerBook 1400s that were
manufactured on or before January 9, 1997,
will give weird messages when disk utility
programs such as Apple’s Disk First Aid are
In use. But rest assured, your data is not
at risk. Because the problem Is caused by
a missing reference file, it’s easy to cure.
Simply go to <http://www.info.apple.com> or
<http://www.powerbook.apple.com> to down-
load the PowerBook 1400 HD Updater. Users
without Internet access can have the update
sent to them by calling 800-SOS-APPL. —NE

THIS SPRING YOUU
SEE DVD PLAYERS,
devices that are meant
to replace your VCR. A
DVD player will play the
video portion of DVDs,
much the way a VCR
plays videotapes. DVDs
can hold a full-length
movie, and the video
quality is on par with
a laserdisc.

WATCH OUT FOR THAT RAY! Sumeria will bring DVD content to your Mac this spring.

So should you buy a DVD-ROM drive? That
depends. If you’re in the market for a CD-ROM
drive, consider this: Toshiba’s DVD-ROM drive
(which should be available when you read
this) costs $350 and plays DVD video and
audio, plus existing
CD-ROMs and audio
CDs, and has a
l,350K-per-second
transfer rate, which is
fester than today’s
CD-ROM drives.

On the downside, the DVD format has
some compatibility issues (most are of con-
cern mainly to developers, not consumers).
DVD-ROM producers must ensure that their
software works seamlessly with DVD hard-
ware. DVD also feces the limitations in video
performance. Currently, to play back MPEG
video from a Mac requires hardware (usually
an expansion card) to decode the MPEG file.
MPEG cards do exist for certain Perforraas.
Quicklime, however, was just extended to
handle MPEG-1, but Hollywood
DVD producers are now starting to
use MPEG-2, putting y^ple slightly
behind; you’ll need a hardware
add-on to see movies optimized for
MPEG-2. DVD titles or CDs based
on MPEG-1 should display full-
screen video using the extended
QuickTime on Macs with fast
processors. Hardware solutions,
however, will give you higher-quality
video than the QuickTime software
solution.) Look for more MPEG
content destined for Macs.

Although you can play current
CD-ROMs on your DVD-ROM drive.

there’s not much DVD material available — ^yet.
Digital Directory Assistance (800-284-8353,
<httpy/www.dda-inc.com>) will put all six of
its PhoneDisc CDs, which list 112 million
phone numbers, on a single DVD-ROM.

Activision (310-473-9200,
<http://www.activision.
com>) has announced
Spycraft: The Great Game
and Muppet Treasure
Island for DVD-ROM;
Sumeria (415-904-0800,
<http://www.sumeria.com>), pubUsher of
geography CD-ROMs, has completed the first
of several DVD-ROM titles that provide exhaus-
tive field guides to species of fish around the
world and to animals and plants of Afiica.

The bottom line: If you’re looking for a
high-performance CD-ROM drive and you
have a thing for cutting-edge technology, go
for it. If you’re a litde more conservative, you
might be better off waiting a while and letting
DVD grow up a bit. — DR

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The Trash is easier to use. With

a Mac, you can drag files and
folders into the Trash and they’ll
remain in their original condition.
With Windows 95’s Recycle Bin,
folders vanish (leaving only files).

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and items dragged in from floppy

disks are erased, not just put into

the bin.

Apple was the first to
show a DVD-ROM drive
running on a computer.

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BRING IN THE CLOWNS 4

W ow! We were overwhelmed by the
response to our “hexpert” quiz
found in January’s “Hack Your
Mac” feature. We were inundated by hun-
dreds of letters, both paper and electronic.
We’re still trying to figure out exactly why
this particular contest was so popular so we
can do it ^ain, but we think it’s a com-
bination of having a really
cool prize — Connectix’s
Color QuickCam with
Videophone software —
and a puzzle that makes
you think. As Linton Val-
dock wrote, “I think Fm
actually learning stuff by
reading this magazine...
pretty sneaky.”

Some of you solved the
puzzle the hard way. Multi-
tasking Jay Toser was
counting in hexadecimal on his fingers
while cooking pancakes for his wife and
actually wrote down the mapping of ASCII
onto hex. I guess Jay doesn’t have a CD-
ROM drive, because the easiest way to trans-
late the hex is to type it into a ResEdit file
and watch the ASCII magically appear, as
shown on page 42 of the article.

Plenty of readers sent us the printouts
from using this method. Although all we

really needed was the secret code “clown
around,” we loved Ric Bayless’ Goo’ed face
and all the rest of your drawings of clowns.
Gavin St. Ours of Boyds, Maryland, was the
name drawn randomly fi*om the hundreds
of correct entries. Congratulations, Gavin!

Oh, and private to Eric D.: Just how old
do you think we are? Antonio B.: In the
future, address
your entry to
the right people
(us), otherwise
some company
might call you a
“bright” reader.
Brett M.: Thanks
for the nifty
sticker. Greg H.:
Cool postcard.
Gary T.: Nice
packaging, but
you’re supposed to keep your MacAddict
covers intact. Conan M.: We hope you get
paid for your illustrations.

Unfortunately, you didn’t fare too well in
January’s other contest, in which we asked
you to m 2 iXQhMacAddict's staff with our hard
disk names. We guess you just need a few
more issues to get to know us better. Cheryl
England calls her Mac Mr. Peabody because
he’s the brains of the operation. Joodle

Doodle was Judy Lewenthal’s childhood
nickname. As Frank Echler (Nikki’s father)
said, “I knew yours was Me, Myself, and
Mine because you’re so greedy and selfish.”
David Reynolds has SoundMaster installed,
and you can hear “I’m sorry, Dave, I’m
afraid I can’t do that” from his pal, Hal.

Kathy’s devilish Mephisto is short for
MephisTAFELes. Dan “humanities degree
fi-om MIT” lUmer is a big James Joyce fan,
hence the partitioned Jim and Nora. New
Mobile War Chronicle Gundam W fanatic
Mark Simmons named his Mac after the evil
organization OZ, whose members wear
really cool outfits. Tom Hale now produces
all of Imagine Publishing’s CDs, so he
named his The Mac so he wouldn’t acciden-
tally run Windows apps on it. Typography
buff Ken Bousquet named his Mac after his
favorite designer, Brit Neville Brody. And
punster Adam Vanderhoof played on the
remarkable similarity between MacAddict
and MacAddam.

Reader Scott Van Horn of Orinda, Cali-
fornia, came closest, matching 6 out of 10
correctly. One other reader tied his score,
but MacAddicfs random picker picked
Scott. Mr. Van Horn will get no work done in
the months to come as he batdes the Ores
for the Dark Portal in Blizzard Entertain-
ment’s Warcraft Battlechest. — ET

“I think I’m actually
learning stuff by
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QUICKTIME 2.5 FOR (GASP!) WINDOWS

Kids love it! But what

I

E ven the most virulent anti-Mac troll
will allow that Video for Windows
(the Wintel standard for movies)
wasn’t the greatest. This same troll never
hesitated to install QuickTime for Windows
2.1.2 on a Pentium box, especially since
almost all desirable games and applica-
tions require it. Now Apple is moving fur-
ther to cement this cross-platform stan-
dard by developing QuickTime 2.5 — the
most current version available on the
Mac — for Windows 95 and NT. The list of
this endeavor’s endorsees fills a page of
single-typed text and includes major ven-
dors such as Adobe, Brdderbund, and
Macromedia. The ultimate goal is to make
the QuickTime Media Layer the one true way
to develop, distribute, and play mixed media
such as video, audio, 3D graphics, and text.

they know?

The

technical advances in QuickTime 2.5
are legion, but one of the most interesting,
as far as real-world consequences are
concerned, is that QuickTime 2.5 for Win-
dows will make QuickTime authoring
viable on the PC. Previously, if a company
wanted its PC product to work with Quick-
Time, it took an enormous effort. The best
example is how Adobe had to wrestle
Premiere for the PC into shape. Now, ail
software makers will have to do is incor-
porate QuickTime technology — something
they’re well familiar with by now — to
create applications that will churn out
QuickTime products which will play con-
sistently across multiple platforms. In a
way, people will be producing not for
a Windows, Mac, or Unix platform, but
for a QuickTime platform.

At first this may seem a blow against the
Mac, but there are a number of ways this
can actually strengthen Apple’s position.
First, owning an industry standard never
hurt. Although the PC will become a viable
authoring platform, it still won’t match the
Mac in terms of power and true color. Sec-
ond, QuickTime for the Mac will, at least
for the foreseeable future, remain ahead of
QuickTime for Windows in terms of fea-
tures and functionality.

Another interesting twist is QuickTime
2.5’s support for QuickDraw 3D and 3DMF
files. There is no de facto 3D object stan-
dard on the PC side — until now, perhaps.
With the increasing importance of 3D in
everything from educational applications
to games (of course), and Strata, Specular
International, Electric Image, and more
vendors adding 3DMF export to their pro-
grams, this could create a whole new
locked-in constituency for Apple. — DDT

MacADDICT 33

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And that’s enough to keep anyone up at night. Contact IBVA Technologies at 212-754-4282,
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fence just out of reach. Every night. Oh, sure, you’d approach the dog’s owner
about this, but, well, he’s awfully big. The cat’s owner has threatened to call Jim
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What’s a sleep lover to do? Why, invest $69.99 in
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34 MacADDICT

emember when Mom said she had eyes in
^■the back of her head, and your older sister
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and that they were going to turn you Into one, too, while you slept?

Remember not sleeping for days, wondering when It was going to
happen and how you could hide from someone with eyes back
there? Well, you survived, but you still wonder what It would be like

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NoHands Mouse

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F or years you’ve repressed your true calling to be a keyboard
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rhapsody

T he Macintosh operating system has always been the soul of this stylish machine. Without it,
your Mac is no better than a well-designed, tighdy integrated rock with a mouse attached.
Problem is, the Mac OS hasn’t had a total makeover since 1984. Although that continuity
allows machines manufactured 10 years ago to run current System software, this remark-
able compatibility carries a price. System 7.6 strains under the weight of 13 years of new
feamres, rewritten routines, and programming language changes; its foundation has not changed to
support all this weight. And that’s a problem, because many other operating systems on the market have
more modem foundations and offer better stability, speed, responsiveness, and flexibility.

Apple has been on a quest to remake the Mac’s soul for
seveml years. Even before System 7 came out, Apple was
looking into a new operating system, first Pink (which Apple
and IBM spun off into a separate company, Taligent), and
then Copland and Gershwin. As release dates slipped, the
next-generation Mac operating system began to look like a
distant mirage, and some people questioned whether a mod-
em operating system would ever come to the Mac. When it
became evident that the Copland project (aka Mac OS 8) was
hopelessly stalled, Apple decided to look outside for help.

Apple finally has a plan that looks as though it will bear
fruit. Apple purchased NeXT Software for $400 million just
before Christmas 1996. The company plans to use NeXT’s
Openstep operating system (formerly known as NeXTStep) as
the base for the Mac’s newest operating system, code-named
Rhapsody. Yes, Rhapsody will be able to run most Mac OS 7.x
applications. Yes, ^apsody will have many elements of the
Mac OS interface. Yes, Rhapsody will run on currently
shipping Macs. Other than that, not much has been settled
about exactly how Rhapsody will look, feel, and work. But we
should know soon. Apple is pursuing an aggressive release
strategy with Rhapsody, promising a developer release as
early as this summer, with a consumer release to follow
by very early 1998.

Many of the differences between Rhapsody and Mac OS 7.x
are architectural. Apple and NeXT will put Openstep on top of
a kernel (a core piece of system software that handles low-level
functions) that runs on PowerPC chips, add a compatibility box
for Mac OS 7.x applications, and give it a Mac-like interface.
(As of late January, Apple hadn’t decided which kernel to use.)
Rhapsody will have all the buzzwords. Unlike Mac OS 7.x,
Rhapsody will have preemptive multitasking, symmetric multi-
processing, multithreading, and protected memory.

So what does all that mean, and why should you
care? Taken together, it means that your Mac will be more
responsive, more stable, and easier to modify (vwthout
“breaking” applications; that is, without causing the System
to no longer work with previously compatible programs)
than Mac OS 7.x ever will be. Rhapsody’s kernel will be the
core of the operating system. It takes care of basic system
functions, such as input, output, and low-level memory
operations. Being based on a kernel allows the system to be
modified without breaking existing applications. Currently,
if engineers change the way Mac OS 7.x performs these
functions, they run the risk of breaking a lot of applications.
A kernel also makes the system more easily ported to
other hardware platforms.

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Confiised about Rhapsody, Apple’s new operating system? Here’s the scoop. Rhapsody will:

Run Mac OS 7.x applications (both 680x0
and PowerPC native) that do not talk
directly to hardware.

Run on currently shipping (and future)
Power Macintoshes, clones, and PowerPC
Platform machines.

Ship within a year.

Be more responsive and more stable than
Mac OS 7.x.

Include key Apple technologies (such as
QuickTime and OpenDoc).

In final form, have the Mac look and feel.
Provide new capabilities, such as Java inte-
gration and easy application development.

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Apple

With Copland, Apple attempted to
bridge between an operating
system that has, at its core, technology
developed in 1984 and a modern OS.
This Involved rewriting the thousands of
Mac Toolbox calls without breaking cur-
rent applications — after all, Apple is
known for its compatibility. This turned
be more difficult than anticipated,
to that employee morale problems
and Copland foundered. Apple looked
to outside sources.

Apple has been working on an OS
to supplant System 7 since 1989. Pink,
which evolved into Taligent and then
disappeared, was supposed to be that
system and was meant to run on multi-
ple platforms. No luck there.

NeXT

NeXT, founded by Apple cofounder
Steve Jobs, has had an operating sys-
tem in release since 1985, will live on in
the form of its software products,
Openstep and WebObjects. Apple will
continue to sell these products “for as
as it makes sense.” Because of
Openstep’s design as a cross-platform
environment, Apple gains some credi-
bility across hardware platforms.

Openstep has great things going for
it. Under Openstep, programs can reg-
ister with each other, and thus provide
services to each other, something like
way a Web browser uses other
programs to decode downloaded files
or handle Telnet terminal functions.

NeXT’s WebObjects technology has
met with some success. In a nutshell,
WebObjects allow companies to create
applications that handle complex data-
base searches, purchases, and other
functions for the Web. For example,
Dell Computer uses WebObjects
technology in its Web site.

NeXT has many Fortune 100 com-
panies as clients, which gives Apple a
boost in the enterprise market. Whether
this will help Apple’s corporate position
in the long term isn’t assured.

Be, founded by ex-Apple executive
Jean-Louls Gassee, has been working
on an operating system since 1992. The
Be OS, which originally ran on propri-
etary hardware, was ported first to the
PowerPC chip and. then to Power Macs,
Meant to be used by those into multi-
media, the Be OS is heavily multi-
threaded and takes advantage of multi-
ple processors. The Be OS was In
development until this spring, when a
final version that runs on Power Macs
was set for release.

The Be OS has many of the same
features that Openstep boasts, such as
protected memory and preemptive
multitasking. The Be OS also has some-
thing that Apple is working on— a blue
box in which to run Mac OS 7.x applica-
tions. Still under development by fred-
labs, the VirtualMac will allow Be OS
users to run System 7 applications
under emulation while running Be OS
applications at the same time. Sound
familiar? VirtualMac currently doesn’t
emulate all of Mac OS 7. Fredlabs has
said that it will finish the emulator to the
point that basic productivity applica-
tions will run and print; anything beyond
that is not decided.

Rumor had it that Apple was going
to buy Be. It even was reported as a
done deal. Instead, Apple went with
NeXT as the core of its new operating
system, citing NeXT’s maturity. (As of
this writing, the Be OS was still in devel-
opment) Don’t count Be out The com-
pany’s operating system delivers right
now much of what Rhapsody promises
for a year from now (preemptive multi-
tasking, symmetric multiprocessing,
multithreading, an object-oriented
base, protected memory, and limited
Mac OS compatibility), and Power
Computing has struck a deal that will
bundle the Be OS with each Mac
compatible that the company sells.
Aimed at multimedia folks, the Be OS
has a solid base and some interest
among the Mac community.

Rhapsody’s preemptive multitasking lets
the system control how tasks are scheduled, as
opposed to cooperative multitasking — ^the
current model for the Mac OS — ^which lets
applications decide how much time they want
to give up for other processes. Preemptive
multitasking makes your system more respon-
sive. Right now, if your Mac is doing a file
transfer, say, and you click on a menu, you may
see a delay as the System waits for the applica-
tion to give up control. Under preemptive
multitasking, a system simply takes control
when you dick on a menu. No delay.

Another piece of system responsiveness
that’s often confused with preemptive multi-
tasking is multithreading. A multithreaded
operating system is able to spawn several
“threads,” which handle multiple operations
'in parallel. For instance, you can execute a ffle
copy, a file delete, and a menu choice all at the
same time. Rhapsody will be multithreaded
(as will the Finder in Apple’s next Mac OS
release, code-named Tempo).

Rhapsody’s symmetric multiprocessing
takes advantage of multiple microprocessors
to make your Mac scream; it makes sure that
all the microprocessors in your Mac get a
share of the processing load. The current Mac
OS supports multiple processors but only in
apphcations built for multiprocessor systems
(such as Adobe Photoshop). The system
software under Mac OS 7.x does not take
advantage of multiple processors to handle its
load. Rhapsody will.

Last, Rhapsody’s protected memory
ensures that if one application crashes, it
won’t bring down the entire system, because
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Apple has said that Rhapsody will have an
“advanced Macintosh look and feel.” Nobody
knows exactly what that means, at least not
yet, but Apple has said that it will “be closer
in look and feel to the Mac OS
Finder” than to Openstep.

What it probably means is that
engineers will bring the best of
the Mac OS user interface over
to Rhapsody, then add user
interface elements from
Openstep and other elements that they will
create. For a look at some of the noteworthy
aspects of Openstep, see above.

Apple says that Rhapsody’s user interface
probably will resemble whatever version of
the Mac OS is available at that time. The

developer release will probably look a lot
like Openstep’s interface with some tweaks.
As Rhapsody approaches final release, it will
resemble the Mac OS more and more.

Fear not, loyal Mac OSers. Rhapsody will
run most existing Mac OS applications.
Rhapsody will boast a “blue box,” which will

run Mac OS 7.x applications; a “yellow box,”
which will run applications written specifically
for Rhapsody (as well as applications written
for Openstep, although developers will have to
recompile them); and a Java virtual machine,
which will run applications written in Java.
Although this sounds complicated (and it is.

when you get into the guts), it won’t appear
complicated when you use it. You should be
able to run blue-box, yellow-box, and Java
applications all at the same time on the same
Mac. You will be restricted when you want to
share information between applications in the
blue box and those in the yellow box because
of stability. If this segregation didn’t exist, then
an errant blue-box application could bring
down the entire system, which blows the ben-
efits of protected memory. At
minimum, you will be able to
copy and paste between blue-box
and yellow-box applications. Apple
doesn’t know yet whether drag and
drop will work between the two
environments, but it may be possi-
ble. ^ple Events wili play an important role in
how blue-box and yellow-box applications
communicate with each other.

As now planned, all Mac OS 7.x applica-
tions will run in a compatibility environment,
which will appear in a single window in its

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located next to each
other to reduce the
amount of mouse
movement required
to scroll b) both
directions.

Menus are vertjcal,
not horizontal, and
they can be torn off
and dragged any-
where on the screen.
The triangle after a
menu item indicates
a submenu, while a
letter indicates a key
equivalent.

Swap tile Indicates how much hard disk
space is being used as virtual memory. This
system is similar in concept to how
Photoshop uses its scratch disk.

Running applications are showti
here “docked” to the bottom of
the screen.

The file browser is NeXTStep's equivalent to
the Mac’s Finder. Users use this to find the
files they want to use; the browser shows the
I file’s path.

Minimize box allows
you to collapse win-
dows so that they take
up much less space.

Close box works like a
Mac close box, except
the appearance Indi-
cates whether or not a
file has been saved.
This box with Its
incomplete “x” lines
indicates that the file
has not been saved; a
completed ”x” indi-
cates a file has been
saved.

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MAC OS 7.x COMPATIBILITY— Most Mac OS 7,x applications will work just
fine with Rhapsody.

HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY— Rhapsody will run on all currently sold Macs
and Mac compatibles, and it will run on all future Macs (including PowerPC
Platform computers).

A SPEEDIER, MORE STABLE, RESPONSIVE SYSTEM— Due to symmet-
ric mutiprocessing, multithreading, protected memory, and preemptive multitask-
ing, Rhapsody will be snappy.

APPLE TECHNOLOGIES— The QuickTime Media Layer, Open Transport, and
■ OpenDoc will make it into Rhapsody.

Ih JAVA — Rhapsody will have its own Java virtual machine to run Java applications.

' ADVANCED MACINTOSH LOOK AND FEEL— Whatever that means. Apple
has committed to keeping a Mac-like user interface.

own protected memory space (for stability’s
sake) when launched in Ehapsody. A crashing
Mac OS 7.x apphcation won’t take the entire
system down but may bring the compatibility
box down. Apple says that Mac OS 7.x com-
patibihty should perform as well as, or better
than, the then-current Mac OS, partially
because this compatibihty will not be provid-
ed by emulation (such as in Insignia’s
SoftWindows or 680x0 code on PowerPC
Macs). Instead, Apple will port the Mac OS to
run on top of the kernel.

Most current Mac apphcations, plug-ins,
and desk accessories will work with
Rhapsody. Many extensions will work, but
they will modify only the Mac OS 7.x compat-

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ibility box. For example, the Aaron extension
would modify only the appearance of items in

HOW MAC OS 7.x COMPATIBILITY WILL WORK— Will users be able to tell
the difference between Mac OS 7.x applications and Rhapsody applications? Most
likely, because Mac OS 7.x applications will have to be isolated (probably in their
own window and definitely In their own memory) from Rhapsody applications in
order to make sure that memory protection works properly.

WHETHER RHAPSODY WILL WORK WITH OTHER HARDWARE— Folks
at Apple have said NuBus-based Power Macs might be able to run Rhapsody.
We’ve heard speculation that Rhapsody could be ported to Intel’s x86 chips or
Motorola’s 680x0 chips (minus the Mac OS 7.x compatibility part), but no plans
have been announced.

WHAT APPLE TECHNOLOGIES WILL BE BROUGHT OVER— Although a
few key Apple technologies have been singled out, not all of them have had their
fates decided. Aside from Meta Content Format (HotSauce), QuickTime, OpenDoc,
and Open Transport, little has been said.

HOW SOON MAJOR APPLICATIONS WILL BE PORTED TO
RHAPSODY— Apple has said that major Rhapsody-native applications could
appear within a year, but no formal time tables have been set, and no developers
(other than Netscape) have commented publicly. Don’t expect much on that front
before 1998 (but do look for new applications to appear from small developers and
old NeXTStep hands).

HOW RHAPSODY AND MAC OS 7.X WILL MAKE IT ONTO YOUR
DESKTOP— Apple has said that Rhapsody and Mac OS 7.x both will be bundled
with new Macs and that it will see who is using what before deciding how to dis-
tribute Rhapsody.

HOW GAMES WILL WORK— Games depend on a quick graphics system, and
many game developers like to be able to take over the entire machine to get the
most out of the system. Under preemptive multitasking, developers will not be able
to take over the Mac, and it’s not clear how quickly Display PostScript will be able
to render images on the screen. NeXT says Rhapsody will have a screen buffering
system that allows faster screen redraw.

WHAT THE USER INTERFACE WILL LOOK LIKE— Although Apple has com-
mitted to a Mac-like user interface, it hasn’t said how closely Rhapsody will resem-
ble Mac OS 7.x. It may contain several Openstep elements, and it may also contain
some completely new items. Don’t expect the developer release to look much like

the compatibility window. Any extension that
talks direcdy to hardware (such as some
device drivers) or provides universal services
(such as file compression extensions) will
not work. Control panels and Chooser exten-
sions should work, provided they don’t load
in the same way extensions do. If they do,
they face the restrictions listed above.
Installers, fonts, and sounds should work
fine, as should printer drivers that don’t talk
to the hardware.

Apple will move many of its best tech-
nologies to Rhapsody: QuickTime, OpenDoc,
Open Transport (including TCP/IP support),
Apple Events, and the Meta Content Format
(known also as HotSauce). Parts of other
technologies, such as QuickDraw GX, will be
used to complement what’s already built into
Rhapsody via NeXT’s technology. A much-
improved version of virtual memory will also
appear in Rhapsody (a demand-paged sys-
tem, for you propeller heads out there) ; hard
disk space will be used for RAM as needed,
so you won’t have to set a predetermined
chunk of virtual memory in a memory con-
trol panel and then restart your Mac.

Rhapsody, although it will have its own
Mac OS 7.x compatibility, will be able to live
with the actual Mac OS 7.x on the same hard
drive in peace. After installation, you will be
able to choose at startup which system you
want to use. (For example, if you want to
use a Mac OS 7.x application that broke in
Rhapsody, or if you just don’t like the term
‘fyellow box.”)

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Rhapsody will offer Java through a Java
virtual machine. Apphcations written in Java
will run under Rhapsody with httle or no
modification. As Java becomes more widely
accepted among developers, and as more
useful applications are built in Java, Rhapsody
users will have more apphcations available.

Although the Apple-NeXT consohdation
has brought modem operating system tech-
nology to the mothership, the companies
need to work out some details. It’s not clear
what Rhapsody will use to draw images on
the screen, but a likely candidate is Display
PostScript, as that’s what is already built into
Openstep. Apple will use some of QuickDraw
GX in Rhapsody to expand Display PostScript.
Display PostScript is the ultimate WYSIWYG.
Its accuracy is limited only by the monitor,
because the same information is used to ren-
der both the image on the screen and the
image that goes to the printer. Rhapsody will
have some additional abilities (such as
screen buffering) that will speed onscreen
drawing for programs such as multime-
dia and games.

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Maybe. Apple has committed
to making Rhapsody mn on all
Macs sold today — essentially all
PCI-based Power Macs — as well
as PowerPC Platform machines when they
become available. Apple hasn’t ruled out
making Rhapsody available on NuBus-based
Power Macs, but the company isn’t making
any promises, either. Apple says it will have to
see how the engineering goes and make deci-
sions at that time. Because Openstep is avail-
able for a variety of processors, it’s possible
that a version of Rhapsody will appear on
other platforms. However, Apple has stated
that the Mac OS 7.x compatibility environ-
ment will run only on PowerPC chips, not
Intel chips.

Rhapsody will be available soon. Apple
plans to phase in Rhapsody over three releas-
es: The first, a developer release, will be
available in mid- to late 1997; the second, the
premiere release with partial Mac OS 7.x
compatibility, will be publicly available by
January 1998; the third, the unified release
with full Mac OS 7.x compatibihty, will follow
in mid- 1998.

This schedule is aggressive. Connnon
Silicon Valley wisdom holds that it takes five
years to develop an operating system,
Through NeXT’s technology, Apple is
hoping to do it in a year and a half.

That pace is even more impressive
when compared with plans for
Copland (Apple’s in-house operat-
ing system project). Copland,
which promised limited memory
protection and multitasking, was
delayed from a 1996 ship date to a
1998 ship date before it was scrapped.
Rhapsody jumps past Copland in terms
of functions, and it should be available with-
in a year. Parts of Copland will live on in
Rhapsody’s blue box and in Mac OS 7.x.

How likely is it that the combined forces
of NeXT and Apple can deliver Rhapsody on
time? Pretty likely. For the developer release,
Apple needs to choose the kernel on which to
base Rhapsody, and then get it up and run-

date, don’t expect the delay to be long.

mng on rowert'c. Macs vcompieie
with device drivers, which allow the central
processing unit to talk to all the peripherals
attached to it). Because of a kernel’s relative
simplicity, getting one up and running is
among the easier tasks for an engineer (as
opposed to porting all of the Mac OS) . A cou-
ple of factors help this effort. NeXT under-
stands porting operating systems to other
hardware platforms, having ported Openstep
to run on Intel PCs, NeXTcubes, and Sun
Microsystems’ Sparc chip. NeXT ported
Openstep to Microsoft Windows NT in less
than a year.

In addition, NeXT had Openstep running
on a PowerPC-based prototype computer a
few years ago, so the company has experience
with the architecture. Tacl^g the device
drivers (the bits of software that control
peripherals such as hard disks) may slow the
effort, but NeXT has been writing drivers for
Intel machines since 1993, and the company
has a driver kit that helps speed driver
development. If Rhapsody misses its release

Back when the Mac first pulled electrons
through an outlet, Apple engineers designed
the Macintosh Toolbox to work with Pascal,
which was one of the most
popular programming lan-
guages of its day. The
Macintosh Toolbox (most of
which lives on a ROM chip inside
your Mac) helps devel-opers by
doing some of the

routine tasks, such as drawing windows and
handling menus. Developers don’t have to
worry about the basics and can concentrate
on writing the core of their apphcations, call-
ing Toolbox routines when they need them.
Programming for the Mac, however, has
become more complex, because the Mac
Toolbox has grown from a few hundred func-
tions to a few thousand, and prograniming
languages have changed over the years.
Progi’ammers now can choose from Pascal, C,
C-I-+, and Java (among others) to create Mac
apphcations.

Rhapsody will use the Openstep
x\pphcation Programming Interface (API),
wlhch means that instead of using the Mac
Toolbox, programmers will use Openstep
calls. These calls are based on Objective C, an
object-oriented flavor of the C programming
language (but Apple has said that developers
wiU be able to use the language of their choice
when developing for RhapsodyO- This object-
oriented base for Rhapsody has benefits for

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Four hundred million dollars is a lot of
money, you may say, but Apple got a bushel
of technologies and people in the deal.
Here’s a rundown:

STEVE JOBS— Jobs’ return to Apple will
provide much-needed charisma and a public
relations shot in the arm as the prodigal son
returns. Other than that, it’s not clear what
role Jobs will play at Apple.

OPENSTEP — ^Apple gets NeXT’s modern '
operating system to use as the basis for its |
next-generation OS.

WEBOBJECTS — WebObjects are NeXT’s
newest, hottest commodity, developed when
NeXT needed something to keep the compa- J
ny valuable. With WebObjects, users can
create applications that integrate databases,
browsers, and users on the Web— all with a
drag-and-drop interface.

CORPORATE CREDIBILITY— Although
NeXT didn’t take corporate America by
storm, it has some impressive customers,
including AT&T Wireless, Dell Computer, :
Merrill Lynch, Nissan Motor, and the U.S.
Postal Service. This may help Apple keep
some of its corporate accounts and perhaps .|
even win some new ones,

OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY—

Aside from Openstep and WebObjects,

Apple lands a bunch of prebuilt code for
use in Its technologies.

TALENTED INDIVIDUALS— NeXT brings
100 talented engineers with it into ikpple’s
fold, including Avadis Tevanian, NeXT’s vice
president of engineering. Tevanian lists lead
designer and engineer of the Mach OS (a
kernel) among his credits.

ANOTHER REVENUE STREAM— Apple
will continue to sell Openstep and
WebObjects "for as long as It makes sense.”
Ironically, the primary buyers for these two
technologies will be people using x86- and
Sparc-based machines.

OS

Compatibility

OPENSTEP Based APIs
Enable FVotection^ Pi^cmption, SMP etc.

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Fbwer Macintosh, FbwerPC Platform Hardbrnm

Rhapsody’s blue box and yellow box terms come from the system’s architectural diagram,
which shows how Rhapsody will be put together from top to bottom.

developers. In an object-oriented lan-
gui^e, programmers can work more
efficiently by using and reusing code
chunks. To create a window with
Openstep, all a developer has to do is
create a window object and then tell it
to draw itself. This simplicity should
make it easier for developers to write
I' applications for Rhapsody. As a side
' benefit, developers who conform to the
Openstep API will also be able to run
their applications on other platforms,
such as Intel- and Sparc-based com-
I puters that run Openstep.

When will Rhapsody users see pro-
grams written specifically for Rhapsody?
I Major applications probably won’t
' be made Rhapsody native for at least a
. year. The big folks are taking a wait-
and-see attitude, giving the young
. Rhapsody time to mature a bit before
making a decision. Many want to
make sure that Apple can deliver, and
they have the luxury of time in which
to do so. After all, most applications
will still run in Rhapsody’s blue box as
they do under Mac OS 7.x.

A couple of sticking points need to
be addressed before developers will
commit to Rhapsody. Many developers
of established applications (especially
cross-platform apphcations) maintain

a common code base, which means that at
the highest levels, a given application’s code
looks the same whether it’s on Mac,
Windows, or another platform. Developers
are loathe to give up this single code base to
create and maintain separate code bases. If
Apple introduces a way to convert existing
code and resources to Rhapsody, expect
established developers to move more quick-
ly. Metrowerks has acquired the Latitude
Group, whose product will be the basis for a
system that developers can use to port exist-
ing Mac OS 7.x applications to Rhapsody
more quickly. Altura Software also has
announced plans to release a tool to port
Mac OS 7.x applications. Netscape is an
exception to the wait-and-see developers; it
announced that it will develop Netscape

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Communicator for Rhapsody.

If large developers are slow to move to
Rhapsody, the gap may create great opportu-
nities for new developers. Creating an appli-
cation from scratch is easier using Openstep
than it is using the Mac Toolbox because of
Openstep’s object-oriented nature. Want a
simple word processor? Just open up an
application builder, drag on a place to put
text, drag on a font menu, and Openstep

takes care of the rest. An experienced
Openstep developer could create such a
word processor in less than a minute, with-
out writing a single line of code. This ability
to create new applications quickly is what
may bring some Rhapsody-native applica-
tions quickly to the market.

“The Mac developers are about to be
introduced to a universe that they didn’t
know existed,” says Kevin Tauber, president

and CEO of ThoughtPort, a company that
develops applications for corporations and
individuals. Tauber speaks of a demo of
which he used to be a part: Using NeXTStep,
engineers would create a program that could
do everything that WordPerfect could do,
including read and write WordPerfect files —
in 45 minutes, start to finish.

Kevin Crowder, chief architect at
Macromedia, developed Virtuoso, an applica-

API — ^Application Programming Interface. This is the collection
of functions that helps developers so they don’t have to write all
the code to create an application. On the Mac, for example,
developers donT have to draw every single pixel to create a
window. Instead, they uSe functions that talk to the Mac
Toolbox’s window manager, and the window manager in turn
draws the window for the programmer. By having a collection of
functions available, the programmer saves time, and can be
assured that the application is more stable and consistent^

system or application spawns multiple ^threads,” which allow the
computer to perform operations in parallel. Background printing
is art example- The Tempo Finder will be multithreaded, allowing
multiple copies, deletes, and other operations. Multithreading
works (along with preemptive multitaskirig) to provide a respon-
sive system.

BLUE BOX--The part of Rhapsody that will run Mac OS 7.x
applications. The blue box should be as fast as Mac OS 7.x, and
Apple says it will run all 680x0 and PowerPC applications that
don’t talk directly to the hardware. Few applications do that, so
the blue box should run most existing appljcatlons.

OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING— This is a !’new”
way to program that involves creating objects and then sending
them messages. Object-oriented programming allows program-
mers to reuse code instead of having to write It each time they
want to use it, saving them time and effort.

COOPERATIVE MULTITASKING— Mac OS 7.x uses coop-
erative multitasking to allow users to do more than one thing
at a time. Programmers specify the amount of time that their
applications are willing to give up, as opposed to the System
jdst taking the tlrhe it needs.

PREEMPTIVE MULTITASKING—A scheme that allows the
system to determine how applications share the microprocessor.
Under preemptive multitasking, the system looks at everything
that’s happening, such as menu selections and file copies. It then
assigns a priority level to each event. Thus, the menu selection is
handled at a higher priority level than the file copy.

KERNEL— The name gives a hint A kernel is at the core of an
operating system, and it provides a layer between the rest of the
operating system and the hardware. It handles functions such as
input, output, and memory at a low level. The rest of the operat-
ing system talks to the kernel through a set of interface functions,
and the kernel makes things happen. This is good, because
engineers can make changes to the kernel, and as long as the
interface functions remain the same, the rest of the System (and
all its applicatidns) Shouldn't notice the difference. Being based
on a kernel also means that the operating system and all the
applications that run on it can be easily pbrted to different hard-
ware platforms. A microkernel is a simpler, smaller version of the
kernel and covers fewer functions.

PROTECTED MEMORY— This makes your Mac more ^able by
providing each program with its own memory space that others
can't enter. An errant program can’t stomp all over another’s (or
the system’s) memory. If one program crashes under protected
memory, the system typically doesn't need to be restarted.

SYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSING— For Macs with more
than one processon this is a way of ^chedulihg^^^^^^y^^
sors handle the tasks. In symmetric multiprocessing, the
processing load is spread roughly equally across all available
processors. Using DayStar Digital’s API, applications written to
take advantage of the API under Mag OS 7,x pan do symmetric
multiprocessing, but the system itself is limited to one processor.

MULTITKREADtNG— A way of handling multiple tasks. The

YELLOW BOX— This is where applications written to conform
to the Rhapsody API run. It also includes the Java virtual
machine, which allows Java applieatipnpto run in Rhapsody.

II

Although Apple has been looking

for its operating system technology

among several possible candidates, it

seems all the planets were aligned for

the deal with NeXT. Back in the summer

Ml of 1996, John Landwehr, product mar

ji keting manager at NeXT Software, saw

that Apple was working on a version of

Mk Linux, a Unix operating system with

a Mach kernel, for the Macintosh,

Openstep is also based on the Mach

kernel, which led Landwehr to pay

attention. When he saw that Apple was

I looking at Be as a possible technology

source, he called Apple, thinking the

company might be interested in NeXT’s

technology. Ellen Hancock, Apple’s

chief technical officer, returned

Landwehr’s call, and the two compa

nies started talking technology. A cou

pie of days before Thanksgiving, three

people from Apple came to visit NeXT,

where only Landwehr and three other

NeXT employees knew about the dis

cussions with Apple. Steve Jobs called

NeXT when the Apple entourage came

to visit and was speechless when

Landwehr told him who was in the

boardroom, but not for the reasons you

d might expect. Jobs had been speaking

i] with Apple in separate — but parallel

discussions.

At first, the two companies dis

cussed licensing NeXT’s technology.

Apple asked lots of questions about all

the buzzword technologies that NeXT

had. NeXT had been getting its finan

cial statements in order (company

worth, revenue, and so on), as the

company planned to take its stock pub

(ic in an initial public offering early in

1997. When Apple heard about this, the

source code review (which gave Apple

a good idea about how Openstep was

built and what kind of care went Into its

I programming), and Jobs and Apple

chief Gil Amelio negotiated the pur-
chase. And that’s how NeXT came to

be an Apple company.

discussions turned to the purchase of
NeXT. Apple poked and prodded, did a

■:

• tion based on FreeHand for NeXTStep a few
years back. Although he couldn’t discuss devel-
! opment for the current version of Openstep
(or Rhapsody for that matter), he can provide
some enlightenment about NeXTStep. “I found
[NeXTStep] pretty easy to develop for,”

' Crowder says. “The user interface kit is proba-
bly the best I’ve been exposed to.” Given the
"hypothetical case of writing a medium-size
1 1 ! lapphcation, Crowder says that doing the user
interface would take
about half as
much time to do
with NeXT’s
object-oriented
technology as with,
the Mac Toolbox,
and that testing prototypes is much easier with
NeXTStep than with the Mac. Because about 60
‘ percent of writing an avenge application is
user interface work (the other 40 percent is
the core of the application that does the actual
work), using NeXT’s technology could save
developers about 30 percent of the time they
now spend writing an apphcahon. Others note
that porting an application to Openstep has not
been that easy.

Crowder says that writing in an object-
oriented environment takes a different mind-
set but that once you get it, it’s not difficult.
“People \riio’ve used [Metrowerks’j Power-
Plant or another object-oriented [develop-
'f-mentj framework probably wouldn’t have any
'■ problems developing for NeXTStep.”
i Don’t forget the NeXT developers already
r/ out there. Those who have an appHcation cur-
I irently running on Openstep need only recom-
^'..ipile their apphcations (a process that doesn’t
I, ,take any serious coding), and they’ll have
'■'applications ready to run on Apple’s brand-
. new operating system. NeXT has said that if
i developers want to get a head start on writing
j^' Rhapsody apphcations, they can begin by writ-
ing Openstep apphcations right now, then just
recompile when Rhapsody is released. This
requires a developer version of Openstep and
the hardware to run it (a Sun Sparc- or Intel
!' x86-based computer). Metrowerks has
I promised tools to help developers create
[^ Rhapsody apphcations. When available,

/ Rhapsody may have new capabihties not cov-
, ered by the original Openstep (such as the
QuickTime Media Layer), but developers

should be able to write new functions to add
those capabihties to their apphcations.

Apple has yet to release a strategy for
moving apphcations to Rhapsody, although
several paths are possible. Estabhshed devel-
opers will probably take a wait-and-see
approach; new developers will have a wide-
open field for a short time; and experienced
NeXTstep/Openstep developers wih have the
opportunity to jump in.

Don’t count Mac OS 7.x out yet. Although
Copland didn’t happen as planned, this set of|
bits has some life left in it, and Apple intends
to keep developing it for at least two more
years — most hkely longer than that.
Although the current release, 7.6, doesn’t
contain a lot of noticeable improvements, 7.7
should contain shiny new features when it
ships. It will include the Copland Finder,
which will be multithreaded and PowerPC
native, which means it should be plenty^:
responsive. Tempo will also include the Mac
OS Runtime for Java, contextual menus, pop-
up windows, spring-loaded folders, more
View options, and live scrolling. Apple also
offered a brief preview of systems after 7.7,
which include OpenDoc integrated direcdy
into the Finder. Open a Web page, and it
opens the same as any other window. AH of
these enhancements should keep Mac OS 7.x
alive for the foreseeable future.

Apple took a gamble buying NeXT. On the
plus side, Rhapsody will be a fully modemy
operating system with Mac OS 7.x compati-!
bility and cross-platform capabilities, and it
looks like it will be here soon. On the minus
side, it will be a new core OS, and some ^
developers may not choose to revmte their I
applications to take advantage of it. We’ll
start to find out in a few short months when
the first developer release is available. Who
knows? It may be just what Dr. Amelio
ordered. □

Associate Editor David Reynolds has gone back to
school to learn about software and sit at a small desk.

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bryce

By Steven Anzovin and Raf Anzovin

I n our book, KPT Bryce 2,1 from MetaTools is one of the world^^
most addictive grapMcs applications. But it’s not only Bryce’s wild
interface that gets you hooked. Bryce users spend an inordinate
amount of time just trying to figure out how the program
works, thanks to MetaTools’ ultramin-
finalist approach to documentation.

Bryce has more undocumented features
than any 10 normal applications.

fii this how-to, we’U take you beyond
the basics of Bryce landscaping — ^the
mountain, cloud, and water effects that
most Bryce owners figure out — and
explore some of the program’s less-well-
known capabilities. Before you start,
make sure you’re using version 2.1 of
Bryce, not the release version 2.0 (the

upgrade is available from MetaTools: 805-566-6200, <http*y/www.
metatools.com>). Version 2.1 fixes numerous bugs, including DXF
import and Boolean rendering problems, and also enables cool
features such as batch processing and rendering in the background.

EDIT PALETTE: Click on Edit to get this palette of tools for adjusting the positions, textures, and
other attributes of individual objects in the scene.

SKY&FOG PALETTE: Set atmospheric colors and various other effects in this palette.

The Nano-Preview
generates a
quick thumbnail
of the scene.

VIEW:
select an
viewing your scene.

TOOLBAR: Access
three different

CONTEXT-SENSITIVE TEXT: This area
provides information about your scene or
objects*— for example, how many polygons
are in the selected object-*or alerts you to
the currently selected tool.

ICON BAR: These tools select
objects or groups of objects.

They disappear when not needed.

water, ground
planes, terrains,
rocks; place
primitives such as
spheres and cubes;
add PICT objects;
and create lights.

ICON BAR:
Customize the cur-
rent wireframe or
shaded view with
these pop-up tools.
When not needed,
they disappear.

RENDERING OPTIONS: These are
the rendering tools. Bryce renders
high-quality ray-traced images or
lower-quality previews and can
toggle textures on and off.

NAVIGATION AND
CAMERA TOOLS:
These let you move
around the scene In
three dimensions.
The cross-shaped
buttons move the
view along the x,y,
and z axes; the
round button rotates
the view.

48 MacADDICT

Hidden Primitives

ee that fat, upright cylinder primitive in the Create menu? Click right above it to find a hidden menu
^^of undocumented primitives: Sphere set, Disk set, GrnI PolyHedron, Gauss, and Spike. GrnI
PolyHedron doesn’t seem to work, but the others come in handy for creating certain effects, such as
foliage and clouds. We’ve taken the Sphere and Disk sets
and created a glowing ball of fiery energy. Here’s how:

1 ■ Create a Sphere set.

2 . Double-click the sphere to access the Materials
Composer. Give the sphere a preset fire texture (it’s in the
Complex fx set). In the pop-up menu, choose Fuzzy
instead of Fuzzy Additive. This gives the fire a more
intense look. Fuzzy textures are excellent for ethereal,
mystical, or glowing objects.

3 . Now, create a Disk set in the same location. Make it
big enough to completely enclose the Sphere set.

4 . Double-click on the Disk set to get to the Materials
Composer again. Choose a yellow materials preset, and
turn up the transparency to about 50 percent or until it looks
good to you. (Originally, we intended to give this object a
fuzzy texture, but, strangely enough, fuzzy textures on Disk
sets don’t render above the horizon line.)

5 - Go back to the Create palette and place a Radial Diffuse
light (the leftmost light) inside the Sphere set. Click on the E
in its plop-down menu to see the Edit Lights box. Make it a
visible light and color it orangey-red.

6 . Click one of the Render buttons and stand back or you’ll
get singed by the fire.

Edit Lights

^ v\meu0it
NoShadows

HIDDEN PRIlVIlTIVES: These two undocumented
primitives are from the Disk and Sphere sets.

mi: Lium suuKut: Insert a visible light
inside the fireball.

FIREBALL WIREFRAME: A wire-
frame view of the two primitives,
with the Sphere set inside the
Disk set.

FINAL FIREBALL; The rendered
fireball.

Object-manipulation Tricks

^here are lots of little-known object-manipulation tricks in Bryce.
For example, the column of glowing tori was created by making
a single torus and replicating it

1 ■ Click on the torus primitive to place a new torus into the scene.

Replicate

TORUS WEDDING RING: REPLICATE THE TORUS: Set the

A bit of Bryce whimsy, number of replications here,

drag left to right to set the
torus' thickness.

2m Click on the E in the plop-
down menu. Surprise! You’ll
see a spinning torus above a
“wedding ring.” Drag to the
left or right of the spinning
torus to adjust its thickness.

3 - Choose Multi-Replicate
from the Edit menu at the top
of your monitor’s screen.
Here you can duplicate as
many objects as you like, all a
precise distance apart. Enter
the values. We made 20 tori at
a short offset (we used an
offset of 20) along the y, or
vertical, axis.

4 . A column of tori will auto-
matically appear. Select them
all to perform additional oper-
ations, such as assigning a
material.

6 Quick Tip^

Press Command-F to see Bryce
in a normal Mac window.

Use the arrow keys to nudge new
objects (not terrains) a distance
of exa^ly one qiiarter of their
diameter. Pressing the Option
key while you nudge gives you
smaller increments.

Press the asterisk ke^to enlarge
selected objects by 100 percent.
Press the backslash to make
selected objects 50 percent
smaller.

Press the plus (+) key to bring an
object closer.

Spacebar-drag anywhere on the
Bryce palettes to turn them Into
floating palettes. Too bad Meta-
Tools left out the standard title-bar
close-box widget that closes a
floating palette and restores It to
its .usual place. You have to repo-
sition floating palettes yourself.

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bryce

bryce

iMaterrals

Modifying Preset Textures

B ryce boasts very powerful texturing capabilities, but you’ll search
in vain for an adequate explanation of them in the manual or the
Deep Features Guide. Here are hints for modifying preset materials
that we discovered while texturing the forested floating rocks.

1 ■ In Bryce, materials can change according to the slope (angle from
the horizontal) or the altitude (height in the scene) of a terrain. We
needed a rock material preset that was slope dependent rather than
altitude dependent. Altitude-dependent materials don’t work well for
terrains that float high above the ground plane, just as slope-
dependent materials don’t work well for low, rounded terrains.

2 . The Desert Rock material preset (in the
Planes & Terrains set) fits the bill, but the
colors are wrong for an area with vegeta-
tion. To change the colors of any material,
bring up the Edit Texture box by clicking
in the top channel of the material
(represented by the first panel in the three-
part box on the upper right).

3m This material has colors in Components
A and B. Component A determines the
higher slope colors; B sets the lower slope
colors. Changing the colors from sandy
brown-red to greenish shades gives the

BRYCE ROCK MATERIAL
FINAL: A low-res render
of the textured rock.

Desert Rock

SRXwlh sand Rxigfi fOcA in(^^

slope.

terrain a more overgrown
appearance, (To change col-
ors, click a color square in
the Component box to
access a color palette. Click
a new color and watch as
Bryce rerenders a preview of
the terrain.)

4 . Also consider the relation
of scale to texture complexity.
A large object generally
needs a more complex tex-
ture to match its scale. Add
more detail by clicking the
plus sign next to the com-
plexity option. Play with the
Turbulence options at your
own risk; they're mainly for
weird, abstract stuff.

Sm When the material looks
right, make a custom preset:
Open the Presets box, click
Add at bottom, and give it a
new name.

EDIT THE ROCK MATERIAL; We changed
the colors and added complexity to the
preset rock material we had chosen.

PRESET ROCK MATERIALS: We chose a
rocky texture that changed with the
slope of the terrain, not the attitude.

Render Cost Index. 418

& Fast
incs & Terrains
_ j 8 Stones

;‘:r3& Liqiwds
Ctouds&Tpgs
WkiaFun
Complex fx
MtetceilaiKous

Foolin’ with Booleans

B ryce does Booleans — ^that Is, it will allow you to use one object
to cut a piece out of another. We used several Boolean opera-
tions to make the windowed buildings embedded in the floating
rocks; the same techniques can be used to make any sort of
windowed structure. Here’s how we did it:

1 « From the Create palette, make a rectangular box primitive. Be
sure you are in wireframe view. Make the box longer than It is wide.
This box Is going to be the main structure of the building. Copy this
“building” box and work with the copy; you’ll need the original later.

2 . Create another long box (we’ll call it the Boolean box) that is
thinner and slightly longer than the first box.

3 . Now bevel the edges of the building box. Position a copy of the
Boolean box so that It is exactly parallel with one edge of the building
box and chops off a little of that edge. Use the rotate tool in the Edit
palette to move the Boolean box into place. Enter the long box’s plop-

down dialog (by clicking the little arrow at
the right). Make the Boolean box a negative
object— that is, an invisible object that can
cut parts out of any other object that inter-
sects with it.

4 . Make 1 1 more copies of the Boolean
box (all will also be negative objects), one
for each remaining edge of the building
box. Place them so that they intersect the
other edges of the building box in the same
way. Take a look at the illustration at right,
which shows how all of the boxes (plus the
ones for the windows) are placed.

5. When you render, you’ll see that the
building box now has beveled edges.

SET BOOLEAN OPERATIONS: In the
Edit Object box, click the Negative
attribute to make the selected object
subtract itself from any objects that
it intersects.

r Copy the Boolean box and .
make it a negative object.

Position it so that It pierces
the building box on one side at
tfie place you want jyour fir^^
window. It will also out a Win^ j
dow hole on the opposite side^' j
Continue placing copies of the | j
Boolean box so that they cut holes j|
tor the rest of The windows cJij]
these two sides, Thbh repeat this S
on the two other sides.

Now the inside of the build-
ing box is a mess—a mess you
can see through the window
holes. Let’s clean It: Copy the

original building box (sans nega-
tive objects), rnake it slightly '
smaller, make IT a negative^l
object, and place it inside th^
building box that has the window J
holes. The Inside is now ciean^^
Let’s make glass for the win- 1
dows. Copy the original building
bicx again and ft a tad
this box a glass tex-
ture. Put it just inside the building
box that has the window holes. If
the glass peeks through the
bevels, make the glass box small- j
e^ 55 Re^lde^— you’ve got windowsj

mdd Windows

PLACE BOOLEAN OBJECTS:
I This shows bow aft the
boxes arc placed before
helog made negative.

50 MacADDICT

Import Files

T hink you can make aliens like these in Bryce?

Good luck. An easier way is to make them in
a 3D modeling program and bring them into
Bryce— that’s what we did. Bryce 2 doesn’t sup-
port 3DMF, the QuickDraw 3D metafile, but it does
import the DXF 3D object file format supported by
most 3D programs (such as Specular’s Infini-D,
Strata Studio Pro, and Macromedia Extreme 3D).

To do a standard DXF import:

1 ■ In the 3D program, save the model in DXF format.
2. Make sure the Bryce 2 DXF Loader plug-in is in the
Bryce plug-ins folder.

3. In Bryce, select Import Object from the File menu.
4. Select the DXF file and click Open.

Keep in mind that the DXF image will not include
any textures it may have had in the 3D program. You’ll
have to give it new textures in Bryce. And you may not
see all the faces of the object until you render it.

If Bryce chokes on a big DXF file, giving you an
“insufficient memory” message, go back into your
3D program, reduce the patch detail of the model
(in programs that allow this), resave as DXF, and
reimport. If that doesn’t work, separate the mode!
into smaller pieces, import them separately, and
reassemble them in Bryce.

Materials

uAr iiiuucia

to work with
complex, organic
shapes you can’t
make in Bryce.

Alien Skin

ALIEN SKIN
TEXTURE: These
aliens need their
own new material
preset.

To move 3DMFs into
Bryce, use a 3D prograrn
to convert ithem to DXF
files, then import as
above. Geometry and col-
ors will come through, but
textures won’t.

If you’re still using
Bryce vrersldh 2.0*’ you’ll
have trouble importing
many DXF files. Try this j
workaround:

Open the DXFiile;Ma
text editor.

Look for a four-line
header like this:

999

Flat DXF output from

9 . ^

Delete the first two lines.
Save the file as plain
ASCII text, then import.
That should fix your
problem.

Render High-res Images

W hy does Bryce render at only 72 dots per inch? We don’t
know— go ask Kai Krause. But you can make high-resolution
images, as long as you have Adobe Photoshop and heaps of RAM.

1 ■ Figure out the pixel dimensions of the image you want to create.
For example, an 8-x-1 0-inch, 300-dpi image has pixel dimensions
of 2,400 X 3,000 (8 X 300 = 2,400; 10 x 300 = 3,000). That’s roughly
33 x 42 inches at 72 dpi, but don’t worry— Bryce can handle It, if your
Mac can.

Document Setup

Mac Addict

Document Resolution

Imp I.IioooII

Document Aspect R«tlo
OoBtSsS) Pnpoitoht g

Render Resolution

1 :0.25

200 X 250

1 :0.50

400 X 500

1 :1j00

600X1000

1 :1.S0

1200X1500

1 :2.00

1600 X 2000

It 3 00

1 ;4.00

3200 X 4000

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Ptnonma gi

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2m Key to the genera-
tion of high-res Bryce
images is the Document
Setup box, available
from the File menu.
Along the righthand side
are numerous preset
aspect ratios, but if none
suit you, enter the pixel
dimensions (height,

width) in the Document

DOCUMENT SETUP BOX: Set up a high-res ,^^^3

Bryce render here.

3> Using the Render Resolution allows you to set smaller pixel
dimensions and reduce Bryce’s RAM needs. If you enter a ratio
of 1 :3, you can set the pixel values to one-third — 800 x 1 ,000 for
that 8-X-1 0-inch, 300-dpi file. The final render will be at the
proper pixel dimensions.

nWMl g

Ttchi^toope

FINAL HIGH-RES IMAGE: Rendered in Bryce at 1,344 x 1,008 pixels,
or 18.7 X 14 inches at 72 dpi, the final image was reformatted in
Photoshop to roughly 9 x 6.7 inches at 150 dpi.

4. After rendering (which will take much longer than a screen-size
picture), bring the PICT file into Photoshop. Choose Image Size from
the Image menu. Set the new image resolution to 300 dpi, lock the file
size, and hit OK. Voila! A hIgh-res Bryce Image, suitable for framing.

MacADDlCT 51

bryce

Champagne wishea
and caviar dreams!
And your gold card

By NiKki Echler

Photography by Aaron Lauer

E ver since A|)[)le (.oiiipmer striicK out
with the FowerHook 5300 in 1995,
the former tive-star portable com-
puter company has been running
wildly around looking for a way to
match menus with its VC competitors. Although
Apple managed to end one heck of a slump with
tlie debut of the PowerBook 1400 late last year,

the company still tinished the year short of a
high-end model for power players who have
cash to burn on ultratast processors and
megabytes of RAM. Rut now, as A|)ple uncovers
the latest entry in its laptop line — the gourmet,
ultraexpensivc, classier-than-tlowers-on-a-
first-datc, boardroom deluxe PowerBook
3400... the tables appear to be turned.

52 MacADDICT

The PowerBook 3400 finally updates the
Apple laptop line to meet, and in some ways sur-
pass, modern-day standards set by PC portables.
The base model among the four configurations
offered by ^ple sports a 180MHz processor,
16MB of RAM, a L3GB hard drive, and a remov-
able floppy drive for $4,500, a price comparable
to what you’d pay for a similarly equipped PC
portable. The three other configurations are
more expensive and differ in processor speed,
hard drive size, and CD-ROM (Wve speed. All of
these higher configurations come loaded with
16MB of RAM, an exchangeable floppy drive, and
a 33.6Kbps modem and 10Mbps Ethernet on a
PCI card. The 3400c/180 comes with a 180MHz
processor, a 1.3GB hard drive, and a $5,000
price tag, while the 3400c/200 races out of Apple
with a 200MHz processor, a 2GB hard drive, and
an equally hefty price of $5,500. But that’s not
even the big news. By the end of March, i^ple is
expected to unleash its lightning-fast 240MHz
machine strapped with a 3GB hard drive and a
12X CD-ROM, all for a mere $6,500. Wow, looks
like it’s time to break out the trust fund.

But the PowerBook 3400 was never meant
for the common man — ^that’s why Apple created
the PowerBook 1400. Discerning users of the
PowerBook 3400 must exhibit an uncontrol-
lable urge for videoconferencing, a strong desire
to create complicated projects using RAM-
munching applications, a penchant for fast-
paced graphics, and a big, fat wallet to match.
Sporting a 603e chip and clocking in at pro-
cessor speeds heretofore unknown to Apple
laptops — ^up to 240MHz—:Tthe PowerBook 3400
brings a bunde of it’s-about-time updates to
the PowerBook line. Unlike previous models,
the 3400 is based on the PCI bus architecture,
which helps it shuttle data among various system
components faster than ever before. And, unlike
the PowerBook 1400, all configurations of the
PowerBook 3400 also include a 256K Level 2
cache, a powerful lithium ion battery, improved
sound, faster graphics, and room for more
memory than most people can afford. But that’s
not all that’s new....

Design of the Times

Just as you wouldn’t see the CEO of a Fortune
500 company strolling into a board meeting with
a tiger-striped Wrapper Keeper, you won’t find
the elegant PowerBook 3400 sporting the clear
plastic bookcovers that were so popular for the
PowerBook 1400. With the firm belief that you
can judge a book by its cover, Apple opted for
a more chiseled, macho case cover and a
streamlined design that’s classy enough to suit
any conservative office dress code.

Classy, but by no means convenient. Unlike the
PowerBook 1400, which lets you simply pop off its

speaker grill and fold out the keyboard to reach
the hard drive, the PowerBook 3400 requires an
8-bit Torx screwdriver and a little extra wrangling
to make it to the inside. The first trick is actually
finding a Torx screwdriver, which isn’t common,
even in computer stores, but is supplied by some
RAM vendors when you buy memory. Once you’ve
got your miniscule tool, you’ll need to unscrew the
three screws on the back of the machine, turn
over your laptop, and take off the keyboard to get
to your RAM — ^hardly an award-winning bit of
industrial design. Fortunately, other features make
up for the awkward case.

Carrying Ns Weight

Tipping the scales at a minimum of 6.9 pounds
and a maximum of 7.4 pounds with the CD-
ROM drive installed, the PowerBook 3400 may
seem overweight in a rapidly thinning world
of anorexic laptops. But reduce this chunky
11.5-x-9.4-x-2.4-inch machine to the sum of its

parts, and you’ll quickly see why Apple’s latest
laptop carries some serious weight.

Speed

Sporting the fastest processor of any laptop on
the market today, the speedy PowerBook 3400
leaves its PC competitors choking on its dust.
Taking advantage of the 603e chip’s ability to
handle higher speeds than 200MHz without
overheating, Apple has fitted its turbocharged,
top configuration with a 240MHz processor,
thereby making its little laptop faster than many
desk-bound models. Boosted by a 256K Level 2
cache that never made it into the strict confines
of the PowerBook 1400, the PowerBook 3400 is
fast, fast, fast. However, if you’re planning on
buying low and adding speed later, you’ll have to
haul out the cash for a totally new machine,
because the PowerBook 3400’s processor sits on
the motherboard, not on the daughtercard as in
the PowerBook 1400.

For Starters

Here’s a brief look at the four configurations that make
up j^ple’s PowerBook 3400 lineup, the latest in the way of
high-end laptops. Circle the one you want, send it to your
accountant, and tell him to make it happen.

3400c/240— $6,500

240MHz 603e, 16MB of RAM, 3GB hard drive, floppy and
12X CD-ROM drives, built-in Ethernet and 33-6 Kbps
modem

3400c/200— $5,500

200MHz 603e, 16MB of RAM, 2GB hard drive, floppy and 6X
CD-ROM drives, built-in Ethernet and 33.6Kbps modem

3400c/180— $5,000

180MHz 603e, 16MB of RAM, 1.3GB hard drive, floppy and
6X CD-ROM drives, built-in Ethernet and 33.6Kbps modem

3400c/180-$4 ,500

180MHz 603e, l6MB of RAM, 1.3GB hard drive, floppy drive

3400

3400

Storage space

Although Apple has been bashed in the past for
not offering CD-ROM drives in its portable com-
puters, the company finally made up for its
mistake with the PowerBook 1400 and continues
to offer swappable options with the PowerBook
3400 via an expansion bay that accepts both
and 5 V4-inch modules. Pop a 1.4MB floppy drive
into the expansion bay (which is on the right side
of the laptop, not on the front as with the 1400)
or swap in a CD-ROM drive, a second hard drive,
a magneto-optical drive, a Zip drive, or an inter-
nal AC adapter. Zip drives, though not available at
press time, are expected on shelves by May 1997.
Having only one expansion bay means that you
can use only one of these options at a time, but
they’re all hot-swappable, which means that you
don’t even have to put your machine to sleep to

Price Check

PowerBook 3400

Model: 3400C/200
Processor: 200MHz
Hard drive: 2GB
Built-in RAM/max.:

16MB/144MB
Display: 12.1 -inch, active-matrix SVGA
CD-ROM: 6X

Built-in Ethernet/modem: 33.6Kbps
Weight: 6.9 to 7.4 pounds
Price: $5,500

IBM ThinkPad

Model: 760 ED
Processor: 150MHz
Pentium

Hard drive: 2.1GB
Built-in RAM/max.:
16MB/104MB

Display: 12.1-inch XGA
CD-ROM: 6X

Fax/modem: 28.8Kbps, also serves as
answering machine and speakerphone
Weight: 6.4 to 7.5 pounds
Price: $5,999

Toshiba Tecra 730

Model: 730CDT
Processor: 150MHz
Pentium

Hard drive: 2GB
Built-in RAM: 16MB
Display: 12.1 -inch SuperVGA
CD-ROM: 6X

Fax/modem: Built-In 28. 8Kbps/1 4.4Kbps
Weight: 8.2 pounds
Price: $5,899

switch them around (a convenience so far
unavailable in PC portables).

Unfortunately, due to the differing shell designs
of the PowerBook 1400 and the PowerBook 3400,
their expansion bay devices are not interchange-
able. The silver lining? The PowerBook 3400 is
compatible with hardware designed for the expan-
sion bays in the 5300 and 190 models.

Add-in cards

In addition to expansion options, the PowerBook
3400 offers expanded functionahty through two
PC Card slots, found on the machine’s left side.
Stacked one on top of the other, the PC Card slots
can hold either two Type n cards or one Tj^pe III
card, which can be used to add a modem or
Ethernet connectivity.

An internal PCI slot, which is taken up by an
Asante Ethemet/modem card in the three higher
configurations of the PowerBook 3400 is left
open in the base configuration. Although the
only card that currently fits this proprietary-size
slot is the Asante Ethemel/modem card, possible
cards you might expect to see on the market
could allow for such extras as faster Ethernet
and 24-bit video out.

RAM, RAM, RAM

Apple finally caved in to consumer demand by
supplying the PowerBook 3400 with 16MB of
built-in RAM, enough to actually meet the
demands of most applications. When Apple intro-
duced the PowerBook 1400 with a mere 12MB of
RAM, Mac users jumped up and cried foul play
with the complaint that you can’t realistically run
most RAM-intensive applications — and even a lot
of CD-ROM-based games — ^with such a scant
amount of memory. Apple got the hint, included
16MB with the PowerBook 3400 series, and even
one-upped the entire laptop industry by allowing
you to expand the memory to 144MB.

The bad news? There’s only one RAM slot to
add this memory — and that slot does not accept
memory from other PowerBooks, nor is it easy
to access. Massive-capacity RAM cards are avail-
able from such vendors as Newer Technology
(800-678-3726, <http://www.newerram.com>),
Southland Micro Systems (800-255-4200, <http://
www.southlandmicro.com>), and LifeTime (800-
233-6233). But any RAM card bigger than 48MB
will cost significantly more per megabyte than
cards with lower capacities. For example, a
128MB card (the hipest-capacity card you’re
likely to find) will cost about $1,600.

Bigger screen

Glue your eyes to the PowerBook 3400’s vast
12.1-inch, active-matrix SVGA screen for
thousands of colors (l6 bits) worth of visual
satisfaction. Although the screen is brighter than
the dual-scan display in most configurations
of the PowerBook 1400, Apple supplies you with

only 1MB of VRAM on the motherboard and
doesn’t let you add any extra. What you have
allows for a resolution of 800 x 600 at l6 bits on
your PowerBook screen and a maximum resolu-
tion of 1,024 X 768 at 8 bits (256 colors) when
hooked up to an external monitor.

Faster graphics display

Not only do graphics look better on the Power-
Book 3400, but they’re much faster on the draw.
The PowerBook 3400 sports a new video con-
troller (designed by Chips & Technologies) that
moves video data fi’om the processor to the
screen much faster than did previous controllers.
The new video controller combined with the
faster PCI architecture allows functions such as
scrolls, line draws, and fills to run much faster.

Software MPEG decompression

Although there currendy aren’t many videos that
are recorded using the MPEG format, Apple looks
forward to more becoming available in the forsee-
able ftiture. To prepare, the company is including
an extension that can decompress MPEG video.
Without this extension, you would need to add an
MPEG decompression board to your PowerBook
in order to see MPEG videos. Granted, Apple’s
MPEG decompression extension won’t run JVffEG
videos nearly as quickly or smoothly as would a
hardware solution, but at least Apple has provided
a convenient, built-in solution.

Sounds good

The PowerBook 3400 doesn’t just look better and
run graphics faster. With the addition of two
speakers and two subwoofers, it doesn’t sound
tinny when you crank up the tunes. The Power-
Book 1400 offers only one scrawny speaker above
the keyboard, so for decent sound you must hook
up external speakers to the stereo-out port.
Although the PowerBook 3400 also comes with
l6-bit stereo-in and -out ports on the left side of
the machine, you don’t need to rely on them for
high-volume, quality audio. An integrated micro-
phone, under the Apple logo at the bottom of the
monitor on the PowerBook 3400, allows for
speech recognition and sound recording.

Video capabilities

The PowerBook 3400 is “zoomed video” ready —
the zoomed-video technology imports video via a
PC card to the video controller, which then writes
it directly to your Mac’s screen. By bypassing the
Mac’s CPU, video can be displayed at a ftill-motion
rate of 30 frames per second (^s) — no nasty l^s
or choppy pictures. As of mid-January, there
weren’t any PC cards on the market that actually
let you do this, i^ple, however, is talking with
third parties about releasing some of these cards
into the market. As it stands, zoomed video is a
technology before its time; a cool little feature that
Apple doesn’t know quite what to do with. . .yet.

54 MacADDICT

Connectivity

Although the priority feature of any laptop is
portability, many people use a PowerBook as
their sole computer in the office as well as on
the go. Apple tried to make the PowerBook
3400 as environment independent as possible
by fitting all but the base model with built-in
10Mbps Ethernet and a 33.6Kbps modem.

Sure, PC users have had this capabihty for a
while, but you have to give Apple credit for ris-
ing to the challenge and upping the ante by
putting in a faster modem than you’ll find in
most PC laptops.

Apple also makes it easy to switch between
Ethernet and modem hookups by letting you
connect to them via an RJ-45 port on the back

of the PowerBook 3400. The port is useful
because it accepts both Ethernet and modem
plugs, despite their differing sizes, thereby
freeing up valuable space on the back of the
machine. The computer is also intuitive
enough to figure out which method of connec-
tion you want to use, without you having to say
a word.

• Sleek case says you’re a well-paid professional.
Besides, BookCovers are so-o-o last season.

• RJ-45 port lets you plug in
either Ethernet or modem
cables, even though the two
plugs are different sizes.
The computer is smart
enough to know which is
which. This Is nifty.

• The 16MB of built-in RAM is expandable to 144MB via this one
RAM slot, which you can reach only by unscrewing the back of the
PowerBook and then flipping it over to fold back the keyboard.

• Double-decker PC Card slots on the left side of the machine
accept two Type II cards or one Type III card for adding
modems or Ethernet.

• All models offer this PCI slot, but only the three highest
configurations come with the Asante Ethernet/modem card
preinstalled.

• Expansion bay accepts a 1.4MB floppy drive, 6X or 12X
CD-ROM drive, additional hard drive, magneto-optical drive,
Zip drive, or internal AC adapter.

* 12.1-inch, 16-bit, active-matrix color display is just
so huge.

Sound controls are upfront and convenient.

* integrated microphone lets you record your voice.

Contrast and brightness controls are right where you’d
expect them to be.

* Trackpad Is tap, double-tap, and drag capable.

Lithium battery inserts on the side and lasts about 2 to
3.5 hours.

MacADDICr 55

3400

3400

Software

The software that i^ple bundles with the
PowerBook 3400 is more than just glorified
shovelware designed to take your mind off the
product’s hard-to-swallow price. Apple bumps
up the value of each configuration by installing
S^em 7.6 on the hard drive and including
software such as the Apple Internet Connection
Kit, Apple Remote Access, MacLink Plus, Claris
Organizer, ForeFront’s WebWhacker, Virtual
Pool, and a nifty little program called Apple
Location Manager. A true timesaver for people
who continually drag their Powerbook fi*om
work to home at night, Apple Location
Manager stores preferences for file sharing,
networking, sound, time zone, printers, and
more, and easily switches them back and forth
between working environments.

Caing It Even, Steven

When Apple released the PowerBook 1400 late
last year, the beleagured company was losing a
breathless match of catch-up. Once the leader
in laptop sales, Apple had completely dropped
the ball on the PowerBook after recalling the
PowerBook 5300, only to find itself with a
backlog of orders that it never could fill. Left
with no new and exciting laptop alternatives,
diehard Mac fans were forced to look toward
PC portables that came with features, such as
the removable CD-ROM drive, unavailable in
any PowerBook at the time. With the release of
the PowerBook 1400, Apple finally offered Mac
fans a laptop capable of rivaling low-end PC
competitors in price and performance.
Unfortunately, Apple still lacked a high-end
alternative. . .until now.

At first gasp, $6,500 may seem steep for a
PowerBook, even the high-end 3400. However,
take the time to flip through a few PC catalogs
and you’ll be surprised to note that the Toshiba
Tecras and IBM ThinkPads sporting similar
configurations cost just as much as ^ple’s
high-priced PowerBook, if not more. So, while
five to six grand still seems steep for the average
Joe and Mindy on the street, when compared
with its competitors, the PowerBook 3400
seems almost reasonably priced. Almost.

The PowerBook 3400 doesn’t break new
ground in industrial design or fancy features,
but it evens the score with the competition. Not
only does it match PC portables in graphics
capabilities, swappable expansion bay devices,
sound, and expandabihty, but it outright beats
them in processor speed and price. Now that
Apple has leveled the playing field, the
company can begin innovating its laptop line
instead of merely resuscitating it. □

Assoclats editor NlkU Echler hopes to be able to afford
a PowerBook 3400 by the year 3400.

Torqued Off

If you’ve ever felt paranoid that Apple really
doesn’t want you lurking around the deep, dark
depths of your PowerBook, you may be right
In order to access the insides of the PowerBook
3400, you need to
loosen three long
screws at the bot-
tom of the case
with an 8-bit Torx
screwdriver before
you can pop off the
keyboard and get inside. Sounds simple
enough, until you realize that you don’t have an
8-bit Torx screwdriver. Where do you get one? A
computer superstore? A hardware store? God?

Some friendly FIAM vendors supply tools with
your purchase; others aren’t so nice. If you don’t
get an 8-bit Torx saewdriver from your RAM sup-
plier, or if you’re just dying to get into your
PowerBook’s innards, you can most likely look
forward to a shopping expedition like this one.

Follow along with three MacAddict shoppers
as our “Trek for the Torx” takes us from the gritty
outskirts of San Francisco to the
tender heart of Silicon Valley.

1. Our unwitting adventure
begins at South San Francisco’s
only computer superstore,

CompUSA, where a conde-
scending clerk tells us that the
55-piece toolkit on display (the
only one with an 8-bit Torx) Is for
display purposes only. If it’s not
on the shelves, we don’t have it, he says. The
beefy salesman suggests we go to a Mac-only
store, such as ComputerWare in San Mateo
(a 15-minute drive), where we’d be more likely
to find the tools we need.

2. Kathy uses the phone In front of
CompUSA to verify that ComputerWare has an
8-bit Torx, but the line is busy, so we head over
to the Sears across the street, hoping that the
automotive department will have what we need
and save us a little time.

3. We make the short drive to Sears and
scour the shelves, only to find that the smallest
Torx screwdriver it sells is 10-bit. Too big. On the
way back to the phones, we lose David and are
forced to flee the lingerie department under the
disapproving stare of a suspicious salesclerk.
She thinks we’re up to something. She’s right.

4. Kathy once again dials ComputerWare,
only to find that it doesn’t carry 8-bit Torx
screwdrivers because ft doesn’t want to be held
responsible for folks who sabotage their own
PowerBooks using a tool sold at ComputerWare.
The salesperson recommends CompUSA.
Kathy sobs our story to the kindly Mac clerk, who
then advises us to check out Radio Shack, which
just so happens to be In the mall connected to

Sears. We have to head back through the panty
aisle while the disgusted salesclerk glares at us
and protectively hovers over the mannequins.

5. We crowd into an already crowded Radio
Shack and try to describe a Torx screwdriver to
the clueless clerk. She leads us to a dark comer
back by the How To Leam Morse Code video-
tapes, where the smallest Torx screwdriver we
can find is, of course, 10-bit.

6. We plod back to the phones and call ACE
Hardware. The sales associate leaves me on the
line while he checks to see if ACE has a screw-
driver that small in stock. We all take up uncom-
fortable poses in the: little aquarium-like glass
space separating the outside and Inside doors
to Sears. Dave begins to pace. What feels like
hours later, the sales dude gets back on the
phone, apparently discouraged, “8-bit, that’s
pretty small, Isn’t It? Hmm.”

7. As a last resort, we shell out the extra
coins needed to call Fry’s Electronics, a com-
puter superstore way down in Palo Alto. Fry’s
claims to have the 8-bit screwdriver, so we make
the 30-minute drive down the peninsula and

cross our fingers. A clerk at the
store sends us up aisle 10 (for
tools, get it?), and we finally find the
stupid screwdriver. After only three
hours of calling, searching, driving,
and calling we hold a bitter victory
celebration in front of Fry’s tacky
cactus signpost with our toolkit and
a bunch of junk we bought while
waiting In Fry’s long checkout lines.

Will people in such states as Ohio, Nebraska,
and Florida have as much fun as we did tracking
down the elusive 8-bit screwdriver necessary
for prying apart the PowerBook 3400? We’ll bet
that they’ll have even more fun. —NE

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Mac:

O nward and upward! In the first part of our series on upgrading
older Macs (Feb/97, p62), we discussed the Mac Plus. Then in
March (p58) it was the SE/30, and now, this nnonth, we present the
Mac il, the first color Mac. Despite having a processor — ^the 68020 — that is
, . a generation older than the one in the SE/30, the Mac II will run almost

on The Disc.

anything, albeit more siowly than today’s PowerPC-equipped Macs.

FIND THE

SHAREWARE

mentioned

A Mac li is fast
enough for word pro-
cessing and Internet
access, and it is
an excellent starter
machine. If you want
to do data acquisition,
the six NuBus slots
truly are a bonanza.
The Mac II also is a
bargain; a used one
with 4MB of FIAM and
a 40MB hard drive
costs only about $130.

Hot Tip:

Apple keeps up with its own
old hardware. For specs on
every Mac ever made (but not
being made anymore), go to
<http://product.info.appie.com/
productinfo/datasheets/dt/
dtarchive.html>.

What You Have To Work With

Up to 128MB
of RAM, with
considerable
caveats.

A choice of
displays, from l-bit through 24-
bit, any size, depending on the card.

(The Mac II shipped with an 8-bit
card capable of displaying a resolu-
tion of 640 X 480 — 2 i perfect fit with
a 13-inch monitor.)

A 68020 processor with a

68881 floating-point unit (FPU). You
can get an optional 68851 paged-

memory management unit (PMMU) .

Six, yup, six, NuBus slots

for expansion.

Plenty of room for inter-
nal drives (and, of course, the
Mac’s standard SCSI port for
adding external devices).

58 MacADD/CT

What To Do About Hardware

CPU: At 2.6
MIPS (million
instructions per
second), a Mac
H’s 68020 pro-
cessor isn’t particularly fast. It’s
faster than the Plus (at 0.7 MBPS) but
not as fast as the SE/30 (3.9 MIPS).
The n’s ’020 does have an FPU,
though, which lets it run software,
such as some 3D programs, that the
Plus and SE flat out can’t handle.

Optionally, you can add a 68851
PMMU to the n’s motherboard. With
it, you can use virtual memory and
some memory utilities such as Con-
nectix’s RAM Doubler. No PMMU, no
virtual memory. PMMUs are avail-
able through used-hardware ven-
dors and are worth the cost if you’re
really going to use the machine.
Apple dealers sometimes carry them,
too, so ask at your local outlet.
Memory: The Mac n, like the
SE/30 and Hsi, needs Mode32 to see
more than SMB of RAM. If you
install more than SMB of RAM in a
Mac n, you’ll find that your System
software suddenly takes up the rest
of the memory. Find out by checking
About This Macintosh or its System 6
equivalent, About the Finder, in the
Apple menu. It will say that the sys-
tem is using 10MB or 15MB instead
of 3MB to 5MB. The system is sim-
ply unable to address the additional
RAM properly.

To resolve this issue, you need
either Connectix’s Mode32 control
panel (version 7.5) or Apple’s 32-
bit Enabler extension. Mode32 is on
The Disc and is easy to find on the
Internet free of charge at <ftp://
sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info~mac/
cfg/mode32-75.hqx>. Apple’s 32-
bit Enabler is also on The Disc and
at <ftp://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/
AppIe_SW_Updates/US/Macintosh/
System/Other_System/32-Bit_
System_Enable r_l.Q.3.sea.hqx> .

Mode32 version 1.2
and System 7.5 don’t get along. Using
them together may corrupt data, so
if you’re using System 7.5 or later, be
sure to use Mode32 version 7.5.

Because there was no such thing
as a 4MB SIMM when the Mac n was
designed, Apple had to guess on
memory details. They were close.

But only close. If you want to max
out your RAM, you’ll need 30-pin
SIMMs that include a PAL chip.
Alternatively, MicroMac makes a
converter that will handle any 30-
pin SIMM. Non-PAL chips larger
than 4MB won’t work without a con-
verter. (PAL chips are few and far
between, anyhow.)

On a Mac n, there are eight slots
total for adding memory. SIMMs
must be installed four at a time, and
each SIMM in a group must be the
same size. As with all Macs of this
era, the Mac H’s SIMM slots are
divided into two banks: A and B.
Bank A is closest to the CPU, and,
because of a bug, it won’t — ^without
additional modification — address
SIMMs larger than 1MB. Thus, you
can put only 4MB total in Bank A.
Bank B will hold up to 64MB, as it
should. If it weren’t for the bug that
plagues Bank A, you would be able
to install a total of 1 2 SMB of RAM in
a Mac n. Unfortunately, you can
install a total of only 68MB of RAM.

If you really need more RAM,
upgrade the floppy drive. Believe
it or not, the floppy upgrade
(described below) fixes ihe memory
bug. Post upgrade. Bank A can see
SIMMs up to 16MB, and you can use
up to the full 128MB.

Storage: a Mac n includes two
800K model floppy drives — ^not the
more-versatile 1.44MB SuperDrive.
Besides holding more data, a
SuperDrive can read PC disks. You
can’t just drop a new floppy drive
in, though.

To upgrade to a SuperDrive, ask
your favorite vendor for a IIx ROM
(Revision B), a 1.44MB floppy
drive, and installation instructions.
Prices vary, but if it’s more than
$200, stick with the 800K floppy
drives. Unless you absolutely must
have the SuperDrive or more than
68MB of RAM, you’re better off
saving for a new machine.

If you want a larger internal hard
drive, you can add one up to 4GB in
capacity. System 7.5.5 address
up to 4GB of hard disk space. Theo-
retically, System 7.5.5 can address
up to two terabytes of hard disk
space, but, according to Apple, the
drivers put a cap on that.

You also can plug hard drives into
the external SCSI port just as you can
on a modem Mac. And because the
Mac n wasn’t designed with an acces-
sible storage bay, you’ll need to add
removable media drives to the SCSI
port. Want a CD player or a magneto-
optical drive? Plug it in. At most, you’ll
need a third-party driver, available
from companies such as FWB Soft-
ware (415-463-3500, <http/Avww.
fwb.com>) or CharisMac Engineer-
ing (916-885-4420, <http://www.
charismac.com>).

Video: As the first color Mac, the
II shook the earth when it hit the
streets. And its video isn’t part of
the motherboard. Heresy! It’s on a
separate card called the Toby. Old
Toby cards stHl abound, and
although they display only 8-bit
color, they drop into any modem
Mac’s NuBus slot (as long as it’s a
12-inch NuBus instead of the
shorter, 7-inch slot, that is).

An oddity in the hardware on a
Toby card lets it display more than
the usual 640-X-480 resolution.
Most monitors have a black band
around the edge, a border unused
by the CRT. Shareware such as
MaxAppleZoom and Monitor
Expander let a Toby card use that
black band — they literally paint in
more pixels. Sure, you could open
the monitor and twist a screw or two
(if you know what you’re doing) to
stretch the image and fill the screen.
But you still have only 640 pixels
across and 480 pixels down.
MaxAppleZoom and Monitor
Expander push the display area up
to 1,952 X 2,048. It’s more useful to
set it to 704 x 512 and thus fill the
empty space around the edge.

If 8-bit color doesn’t cut it, the
Mac II supports any NuBus video
card, up to 24-bit color and in a
variety of resolutions. Cali any
hardware vendor and buy what you
need. Remember, this is an old
machine. The more colors you use,
the slower they’ll display. Also, 24-
bit boards aren’t cheap and may
cost upwards of $500 — ^more than
your Mac II is worth.

Modom: save your money; don’t
by a 33.6Kbps modem. Or a
28.8Kbps modem. Or a l4.4Kbps

Used Hardware
Sources

Contact several vendors when
you shop, and ask about war-
ranties and return policies, just in
case. This list isn’t comprehen-
sive, but it’s a good place to start.

The Computer Exchange

800-304-4639

http://www.compexch.com

CRA Systems
800-375-9000
http://www.cra-sys.com

DataTech Remarketing
800-281-3661

http://www.datatech-rmkt.com

GE Capital Electronics Services
800-431-7716
http://wvftw.ge.com/capital/
commequip/es

Hawke Business Systems

800-875-2610

machawke@aoi.com

Mac* Res* Q

510-689-9488

http://www.macresq.com

Mac Sale International
800-729-7031

http://gn2.getnet.com/macsale/

index.html

Pre-Owned Electronics
800-274-5343

Sun Remarketing

800-821-3221

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More Sources
for Old Macs...

■ Use your favorite search
engine to search for
“used mac”

■ Subscribe to the news-
group <comp.sys.mac.
forsale>

■ Look in local news-
groups; for example,
<yourcity. iorsa\e>

■ Peruse the phone book
under “Computers, Used”

■ Watch the newspaper’s “for
sale” section

■ Ask around. You may be
surprised by how many
people have old computers
stashed in the closet that
they’ll just give away.

Hardware Sources

Accelerators

Brainstorm Networks

415-988-2900

http://www.brainstorm.net

DayStar Digital
770-967-2077
http://www.daystar.com

MicroMac Technology

800-600-6227

http://www.micromac.com

MacGalaxy

608-238-0606

http://www.macgalaxy.com/

pages/store/hardware/

boards.html

modem. The Mac H’s serial port’s
top speed is only 9,600 baud, just
like the Plus. If all you have is a fast
modem and it won’t work, be sure
you’ve set your software to no more
than 9,600 baud.

Networking; The Mac ll has
AppleTalk built in, but you can add
Ethernet, Token Ring, or any other
protocol via a NuBus card. Unfor-
tunately, your network access
tops out at 9,600 baud because of
the aforementioned serial port
speed limit.

Slots: In the slot department, the
Mac n shines. Only three Macs ever
shipped with six slots, so if you
need a lot of cards, welcome to hog
heaven. What might you want to
add? Accelerators, networking
cards, data acquisition cards, dis-
play cards, or video capture cards.

You can build a video wall with six
video cards and six monitors. Or
you can run a kiosk that faces six
different directions. Or you can
pick up data from half a dozen sen-
sors. Just go wild.
Accelerators: There’s no
shortage of accelerators for the
Mac n. They range from products
with a 68030 chip to those with a
PowerPC chip. Is it worth the
upgrade? Possibly.

Scientific uses often require
cards to acquire data, and none of
the currently shipping models have
six NuBus slots. Be aware, though,
that upgrading your Mac n with a
PowerPC-based accelerator won’t
make it as fast as today’s Power
Macs. That’s because the rest of the
Mac H’s internal architecture won’t
have been updated. So although

you’ll see definite speed improve-
ments with a PowerPC-based
accelerator, you won’t see enough
to be happy editing, say, complex,
layered images in Adobe Photoshop
or running top-end games such as
Bungle’s Marathon.

Look for accelerators on sale.
Call used-hardware vendors to find
bargains, and try to keep the cost
under $350. If it’s looking like
more than that, you might as well
save your money for a new or
refurbished machine.

Ask about conflicts, too. Most
vendors claim that their boards are
100 percent compatible, but watch
that pesky fine print. For example,
Sonnet Technologies’ Allegro II
requires an original Apple Memory
Unit, and it isn’t compatible with
the 68851 PMMU upgrade.

Sonnet Technologies

800-786-6260

http://www.sonnettech.com

Video

RasterOps

800-729-2656

http://www.rasterops.com

Radius

800-277-2795

http://www.radlus.com

Networking

Farallon Communications

800-759-7761

http://www.faralion.com

What To Do About

Application
software: a

Mac n is almost
a modem Mac.
Almost. There
are a few applications that don’t
like processors older than the
’030 — for example, Netscape
Navigator and America Online
version 3.0. As for productivity
programs, such as Microsoft
Office and Adobe Photoshop, all’s
well. They won’t run fast on a II,
but they’ll work.

System software: with a Mac
n, you can take your pick from sev-
eral versions of System software.
System 7.5.2 is not universal, so stay
away from it. And System 7.6,
i^ple’s latest incarnation, won’t run
on Macs that aren’t 32-bit clean and
don’t have at least a 68030 proces-
sor — and that includes the Mac n.
Your best bet? Run System 7.5.5. It’s
the latest version of System software
that will run on a Mac n.

Games: Most twitch games of
late need at least an ’040. Slower

Software

games, such as Semicolon Soft-
ware’s Solitaire or Presage’s Lode
Runner, work fine, so look to old-
game archives such as <ftp://ftp.
funet.fi/pub/mac/games> . Also,
check <http://www.astro.nwu.edu/
lentz/mac/recreation/classic-mac-
games.html>. They specialize in
toys for elderly machines. Q

T. Kelley Boylan has co-authored several
books and articles and is a Mac adminis-
trator when he’s not writing. He owns and
uses Macs exclusively.

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PageMaker 6.5

DEVELOPER: Adobe

CONTACT: 800-42-ADOBE; http://www.adobe.coni
PRICE: $895 (SRP), upgrades $99

REQUIREMENTS: 68030 processor (PowerPC recommended); System 7.1 (7.5.5
recommended); CD-ROM drive; 6MB of RAM available to PageMaker (9MB on
Power Macintosh); 26MB of hard disk space for minimum instailation (56MB
for full installation)

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P ageMaker has long had the capabilities of — ^just to list a few
major features — automatically creating indexes and tables of
contents; creating a “Book” out of a set of related documents
(the Book can be indexed, table-of-contentsed, auto-page-renum-
bered, and printed all together); paragraph styles for text; styles for
different printers and print-job setup requirements; multiple mas-
ter pages; a Control palette for easy manipulation of almost any
PageMaker element or text attribute; the best color separation capa-
bilities in the field; self-contained trapping; and using an internal
scripting engine to automate tasks. Version 6.5 adds layers; vastly
improved internal scripting; improvements in text tagging; text and
graphics frames, much like those in QuarkXPress (this was XPress’
single biggest feature advantage) ; an enhanced polygon tool; a vast-
ly improved Adobe Table application; an enhanced Grid Manager;

new “tabbed” palettes; auto-
matic layout reformatting and
adjustment; and a suite of on-
line tool extras (improved
HTML and PDF export, and a
Hyperlinks palette).

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operation. The text Is on layer
2, which is the rear-most layer.
The graphic lowest on the page
is on layer 3; the middle graph-
ic is on layer 4. The selected
graphic, which is in an oval graphic frame, is on layer 5, which is
also the currently targeted layer. The Default layer is Invisible; layer
3 is write-protected.

The new Layers work much like they do in Photoshop and
Illustrator: you can put elements on separate layers; change the
order of layers; make individual layers write-protected and/or
non-printing. This makes the design process far more flexible and
forgiving, as Photoshoppers know. Also, you could (though this
might be more trouble than it’s worth) build and group layers
according to CMYK colors, and print color separations that way.
Layers can also be handy for easily making multiple versions of
the same basic document; just make the appropriate layer visible,
while the others are invisible (and the common “background”
remains visible throughout).

PageMaker’s scripting has graduated from a fairly capable lan-
guage to an incredibly rich and full programming langu^e.
Scripting is a great way to automate repetitive tasks for speed,
efficiency, and accuracy. The only weakness in PageMaker 6.5’s
scripting is that there’s still not much of a link to external, system-
wide scripting (e.g., AppleScript): only two commands are
supported — ”do script” and “eviuate” — ^and they can only call
one internal scripting command at a time. It’s possible to perform
most tasks that way; it just feels a bit clunky. One gripe: you have to
buy a $45 book fi*om Adobe Press in order to have all the scripting
documentation you need; an on-line help file is included in the
PageMaker package, but it doesn’t begin to cover everything.

PageMaker’s tagging language hasn’t actually changed from
version 6.0, but it now works without incident (it was quite buggy
in 6.0). Tags are visible text- and paragraph-formatting codes that
you insert into a text-only document; the tags cause PageMaker to
format the text on import. This is more convenient than working
with formatted word-processing files, because you can see what
you’re doing (for instance, confirming which style is applied to
each paragraph), and you can perform search-and-replace oper-
ations on the tags in your word-processor. Furthermore,
PageMaker now correctly reads XPress Tags files (it was an
included but also unreliable feature of Version 6.0); this makes it
possible to use certain XPress-oriented utilities to take a
formatted Microsoft Word file, transform it to an XPress-Tagged
text-only file, perform operations such as those mentioned above
on the text file, and import it straight into PageMaker without any
further alteration.

Those who have used both XPress and PageMaker are proba-
bly ready for the new Frames feature. In some ways, P^eMaker’s
frames work the same as XPress’: for instance, you can set up a
custom text flow in advance (previously possible in PageMaker
only by using dummy text); and you can apply a background and
a border to a frame. In other ways, PageMaker’s frames aren’t up
to XPress’s yet: a frame can only hold one text column, and a
frame can’t be pasted into another frame. Still, you can mix-and-
match PageMaker’s traditional text blocks and freestanding
graphics with text and graphic frames, and convert them back and
forth wiUy-nilly.

62 MacADDICT

Adobe Table is PageMaker’s table-making tool. It’s actually a sep-
arate utility that comes with PageMaker; you use it to create an EPS
file that you import into P^eMaker, and it has added color support
this time around. It’s a very good table-creation tool; its biggest
remaining weakness is lack of support for multiple-page tables.

P^eMaker’s new tabbed palettes are straight out of Photoshop:
you have multiple “pages” of palettes inside the same window
(P^eMaker comes set up with its palettes in pairs, but you can cus-
tomize this) , each palette being identified by what looks like the tab
on an old-fashioned manila folder. To change from one palette to

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ALMOST THE SAME DOCUMENT exported to HTML. The overlaps, text
wraps, and oval frame had to be removed before exporting, but that’s
due to HTML’s limitations.

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GET A GRID ON YOURSELF: PageMaker’s grid manager can define and
save sets of guides, and can create a grid within an area of a page.

another, just click on its tab. This is a great feature which I use to
combine all five palettes possible into one window. This is a great
on-screen space-saver, especially handy since some of the individ-
ual palettes (notably the Styles palette) have grown quite a bit, for
no apparent reason; fitting five palettes into the space of one or two
partially counteracts that undesired growth.

The layout adjustment feature is the kind of thing that will be a
life-saver for some people, while others will never use it. When you
move one object (a graphics box, say), the other elements on the
page will reflow automatically. It gives you a great deal of control
over what happens to your text and graphic elements if you resize
or reshape your pages or even just reposition your margins. Be
aware that this won’t always work perfectly (nothing like tills ever
could, due to the infinity of scenarios it’s trying to allow for), but it’s
a dam sight better than no layout adjustment.

HTML and PDF export and the Hyperlinks palette are of inter-
est to those who publish documents electronically — ^now you can
create a page with all the precise graphic tools of PageMaker, and
have these designed pages (mostly) translated for the Web. Though
these two export capabilities were there before, they’re greatly
improved in 6.5. The Hyperlinks palette is new, and works just fine
(letting you create hyperlinks for either HTML or PDF) ; the main
weakness is that you can’t create a hyperlink from one PageMaker
document to another.

Finally, there’s the Adobe-wide Great Change of ’97: major
gratuitous alterations in the keyboard shortcuts. Someone at Adobe
has evidently determined that PageMaker, Illustrator, and
Photoshop should share the same set of shortcuts, which in itself is
questionable, since they’re different kinds of programs that do total-
ly different things. But the worst part (from a desktop publisher’s
viewpoint) is that they decided that PageMaker was the one that
should conform to the others. Some of the new shortcuts might only
require some new memorization; but some of them will require
tot^y different work habits, having gone from simple one-handed
shortcuts to very awkward two-handed contortions.

Despite the learning curve, PageMaker 6.5 is a significant
improvement to what was already a very impressive and powerful
page-layout program. — Phil Gaskill

GOOD NEWS: Major new features definitely make this something
for Quark to worry about.

BAD NEWS: New scripting language requires $45 manual.

Major interface changes might be difficult or counter-productive
for many people.

MacADDICT 63

reviews

reviews

Extreme 3D 2.0

DEVELOPER: Macromedia

CONTACT: 800-326-2128, http://www.macromedia.com
PRICE: $399 (street), $149 upgrade

REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac, 16MB of RAM, System 7.0 or latei; QuickDraw 3D
1.06, QuickTime 2.5 (recommended: 604e-based Mac, 32MB or more of RAM)

;

FIND A
DEMO OF
Extreme 3D
2.0 on
The Disc.

I acromedia worked hard to inject some pizazz into this
version of Extreme 3D, and on the whole, the effort is a
success. But you know what they say about the details, and
Extreme 3D still has a few devilish shortcomings.

Let’s look at the good stuff first. Extreme 3D’s most impressive
new features are the Metaforms and particle tools. Metaforms
are based on the concept of metablobs (also called metaballs), a
modeling method long present in high-end 3D programs.
Most metablob modelers work by merging a group of spherical
blobs based on a “sphere of attraction” around each object.
You can build incredibly complex organic models by manipulating
grouped strings of blobs, but you need a lot of trial and error,
and patience.

Extreme 3D improves the metablob concept. Instead of
melding spheres together, it melds profiles (Extreme 3D’s term for
splines) along a user-definable radius and degree of “blobbiness.”
One easy-to-manipulate profile can do the job of a whole string of
individual blobs. Unfortunately, you can’t vary the radius of a
profile over its length, which means that sometimes you still get
better results with the old method (which Extreme 3D also
supports). Metaforms can be animated, but seamless-skinned
models are still something Extreme 3D doesn’t do well.

Extreme 3D doesn’t support Boolean operations, but it does
trim surfaces to give Boolean-like effects. Trimming involves
creating a trim curve, which fits on the surface of the model and

creates a hole within its
boundaries. The program
creates trim curves at the
intersection between two
models for Boolean-like
union, subtraction, and
intersection effects. In
some ways, trimming is
superior to Boolean opera-
tions, because a trimmed
surface retains all of its
original data, whereas
Boolean models usually
don’t. For instance, you
can edit the cross-sections
of a trimmed skin surface
and the trimmed hole will
follow exactly.

The particle tools are
unique and useful. Particles
are animated by behavior
rather than by key-fiming.
That is, you specify the

Mac 3D applications are becoming more sophisticated.
Extreme 3D 2.0 boasts some slick new capabilities you
couldn’t get at this price just a few months ago. Here are
three examples:

HE’S NO BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, but
Blobby Man shows off Extreme
SD’s Metaforms tools.

GIVE ME A SPOl^ Beams of
light are the latest 3D trick.
Extreme 3D’s Dust Cones
add atmosphere to this
architectural scene.

AND NOW, THE BUBBLY:
in version 2.0, animated
sprays of sparks are easy to
generate. Better yet, any
object can be a particle.

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number of particles, how fast they move, in what direction,. . .and let
the program do the rest. Any object can be a particle (for making
smoke, steam, flocks of birds, and so on) , and a particle system can
be turned into a polygon mesh at any time, allowing you to create
tree leaves.

The program provides no ray tracing, but the Phong renderer
is very good, offering transparency, a new volumetric light feature
(called Dust Cones), and very realistic shadow-mapped shadows
with control over edge fuzziness and resolution. Eight-times
oversampled anti-aliasing yields very smooth images.

For good measure, Macromedia added Virtual Reality Modeling
Language (any model can have its own URL), QuickDraw 3D sup-
port, and rendering over a network — all valuable new capabilities.
Some basic features, though, still need work.

Texture application tools are less than stellar. The intrinsic
(ultraviolet) mapping is inept; it locks the map to one end of the
object. This serious hmitation requires you to size and fit maps by
trial and error (Fractal Design Detailer can help). Also, you can’t
adjust the area of cylindrical and spherical maps in degrees,
sometliing that other programs can do.

You’ll chafe at several obnoxious interface quirks. After using
any modeling tool. Extreme 3D immediately reverts to the move
tool, forcing another trip to the tool palette every time you want to
repeat an operation. Rotating an object often requires three steps.

Extreme 3D provides a fairly standard animation timeline
sequencer but no sphne-based velocity graphs. Slow in/slow out
sliders don’t provide the same level of realistic movement control.
Nor does Extreme 3D offer inverse kinematics, which is showing
up in many competing 3D apps and even in Fractal’s Poser 2.

If you’re getting Extreme 3D as part of Macromedia’s FreeHand
Graphics Studio, as most users will, then you’re getting good 3D
at a great price. But if you’re looking for a stand-alone animation
program, check into Specular’s Infini-D or Fractal’s Ray Dream
Studio before you make up your mind. — RafAnzovin

GOOD NEWS: Slick new metablobs. Volumetric lighting and particle
animation. QuickDraw 3D support.

BAD NEWS; Image mapping and interface need more work.

64 MacADDICT

reviews

(laris Home Page 2.0

DEVELOPER: Claris

CONTACT: 800-3-CLARIS, http://www.claris.com
PRICE: $99 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 68020 or faster processor, 8MB of RAM, System 7.1 or later,
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THIS IS NOT A PREVIEW: You still have to switch back and forth
between Home Page and a browser to create frames.

Ihen we reviewed Claris Home Page 1.0 (Nov/ 96 , p58), we
[ admired its interface but complained that it lacked many
essential features. Among other things, the initial release
didn’t support client-side image maps, WYSIWYG table manipula-
tion, or preview of background patterns, and it offered no help
with managing or uploading a site. Frame creation was imple-
mented but was a serious chore.

At first glance, version 2.0 looks pretty much like the original.
The few improvements and additions, however, are significant.
In several features, such as uploading your site, Home Page now
beats the big boy on the block, Adobe PageMiU 2.0.

All the attraction of version 1.0
remains: Home Page displays a good
preview of the page and sports all
the tools we’ve come to expect.

Commonly used functions are avail-
able in a toolbar, search and replace
is well implemented, and a scrap-
book stores page elements. Nearly
everything is handled via drag and
drop or straightforward dialog boxes.

Home Page’s four modes — ^WYSIWYG editing, browser-imitating
preview, bare HTML text editing, and the new fi-ame-editing mode —
are selected via the toolbar. Image import and manipulation are fiiUy
supported. Version 2.0 adds refinements to HTML editing mode;
for example, HTML syntax is now indicated by colors. The online
help is well indexed and is a good supplement to the manual.

Home Page can now display a background image, which is handy
when choosing font colors and backgrounds. You can spell-check
the entire document or just a selection of text (though checking a
selection locked up our Mac) . Version 2.0 adds support for drag-
ging Java applets and plug-in files onto a page. QuickTime movies
are now previewed with a display of the first frame — -better than
nothing, but not exactly useful if your movies fade in from black.

In version 2.0, creating and manipulating a table is almost

completely WYSIWYG.
You can finally drag table
borders to resize cells,
and — hooray! — tab-
delimited text is automat-
ically pasted as a table.
Frames, in contrast, are
improved but remain
half-baked. A window
displays the arrangement
of frames, and you can
change frame sizes by
di’agging, but Home Page

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YES, DAVE, UPLOADING NOW: This dialog is at the heart of Home
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If you’re just starting out as a Web
author, don’t succumb to Home
Page’s offer to put all your image
files into one Image directory.

Jhink carefully about a sensible
“ ' ’ set of folders to contain icons and
various categories of images.
Changing your mind later can cause
you no end of grief, specifying files’
new locations, one at a time.

still doesn’t display the contents.
You have to switch back and
forth to a browser to see what
the final product looks like.

Home Page’s most exciting
new feature, which so far
is unique among WYSIWYG
page creation apps, is Remote
Saving. On command, the appli-
cation creates a “site definition file” to track the files and folders
that make up your Web set. (While it’s “consofidating” your site,
however, it can’t update broken local links. If you’ve changed your
directory structure, you face the tiresome task of answering a dialog
box for each broken link.) After a one-time setup with your provider’s
FTP information, a single click uploads your entire site onto your
Web host. Home Page will also upload a single page and, optionally,
that page’s associated image files.

For simple sites or new Webmasters, Home Page first offers to
move ail the site’s images into a folder (and corresponding remote
directory) called Images. For more complex sites, there’s an option
simply to mirror the local folder structure.

If you want to tweak a p^e that you’ve already uploaded, Home
Page’s Remote Open will view and download any page from your
site and will revert a local page to the version on your remote site.

The WYSIWYG page-creation battle has only two serious
contenders. Home P^^e now meets or beats Adobe PageMill 2.0 in
several important respects. If you work a lot with frames, then
PageMill remains the clear winner, and overall it does a better job
displaying true WYSIWYG files such as animated GIF files. But Home
Page 2.0 sports a more intuitive interface, provides simple one-step
uploading of your entire site, and allows tab-delimited text to be
imported as a table. —Joseph 0. Holmes

GOOD NEWS: Easy to use. Creates page statistics. Good image
support. Excellent table control. Simple file upload to the Web host.
BAD NEWS: Stiil needs WYSIWYG frame creation.

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ATM Deluxe 4.0/ATR Deluxe 2.0

DEVELOPER: Adobe Systems

CONTACT; 800-492-3623, http://www.adobe.com

REQUIREMENTS; 68020 or faster processor, System 7.0.1 or later (System 7.1

recommended), SMB of RAM, CD-ROM drive (floppy disks available)

Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.0

PRICE: $49.95 (SRP) until May 1997; $99.95 (SRP) thereafter

Adobe Type Reunion Deluxe 2.0

PRICE: $29.95 (SRP) with upgrade/intro until May 1997; $60 (SRP) threafter
SPECIAL BUNDLE PRICE: $69.95

F or anybody with more than a handful of fonts, font utilities are
a way of life. For several years, Adobe IVpe Manager (ATM) has
been one of the standards. The new version not only improves
on earlier features but also adds important capabihties, becoming
an almost complete font management system.

The primary function of ATM historically has been to improve
the appearance of PostScript fonts onscreen and allow these fonts to
print at high resolution on a non-PostScript printer. The new
version provides an option to anti-alias font rendering; it adds gray
pixels along edges that might otherwise appear sUghtly jagged. This
feature spruces up onscreen presentations but will probably be less
useful to general users.

ATM Deluxe’s other new features are even spiffier. Whether you
use PostScript fonts, Trueiype fonts, or a combination, font man-
agement can be a tedious and awkward process, especially if you’ve
installed a lot of fonts in your System Folder (your hst of fonts
becomes too long for convenience, and your Mac devotes too much
memory to keeping track of them). Several font management
utiUties — Symantec’s Suitcase and Alsoft’s Masterjuggler among
them — ^let you store your fonts anywhere on your hard drive and
then activate them as needed. The new ATM includes this man^e-
ment capability, too, which means that your Mac will have one fewer
control panels taking up space and resources.

Adobe Type Manager and Symantec’s Suitcase used to be a winning
combination, but the new ATM largely replaces the need for Suitcase.

The only feature that still gives Suitcase a slight edge Is Its ability to create
temporary sets— groups of fonts that you activate for only a short time. For
anyone running a Mac lab (a college lab or a service bureau, for instance),
the ability to have font sets go away after a single use is a big help.

Adobe Type Reunion’s competition is stronger than ATM’s. Several
other font menu utilities provide more options than Adobe’s. For
example, Now WYSIWYG Menus (part of the Now Utilities set) not only
groups fonts into families and shows fonts in their own typefaces, but it
also lets you decide the size at which to display individual faces (some
script and display faces are hard to read onscreen at 10 or 12 points).
Now Software’s utility also lets you determine which typefaces appear
in different applications. You might care to use only a few faces in your
e-mail program but want ail available faces in your page layout program.
Luckily, the new ATM, with Its highly desirable features, is compatible
with font menu utilities from other vendors.

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NOT ANOTHER FUNNY-FACE JOKE: Double-clicking a font in an ATM
window produces a big sample sheet showing the typeface at different
sizes. Print out sheets for all your fonts to create a font catalog.

When you install ATM Deluxe, it offers to search your hard
drive for fonts and add them to the Known Fonts list (see image
on the next page). Cheking in the column to the left of a font’s
name turns the font on — makes it available to your system. The
font will then appear in the Font menu in each of your programs
until you turn it off again.

For more convenience, you can group fonts into sets so that you
can turn off or on several fonts at the same time. For instance, you
might create a set of fonts that you use for a monthly newsletter.
Creating and modifying sets is easy and intuitive.

The news gets even better. ATM Deluxe now generates a look-
alike typeface to substitute for a font you don’t have. Substitute fonts
may not look exactly Hke the original fonts that they fill in for, but
they preserve the letterspacing and line endings of the original
document. This substimtion feature used to cost extra, back when
the program was known as Super ATM.

The most exciting feature for fontaholics is auto-activation,
which will warm the heart of anyone who regularly switches fonts
around. With this feature enabled, when you open a document

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drop fonts from the Known Fonts list to folders in the Sets window.

that uses a font not already active, ATM automatically activates it.
As long as a font is in the Known Fonts list, it will automatically be
available when you need it and go away when you don’t. No more
“This document uses unknown fonts” messages!

A last tidbit: ATM Deluxe 4.0 displays and prints samples of your
font collection. Many people buy separate utilities for this purpose.

Adobe Type Reunion

One thing that ATM won’t do for your fonts is organize the
appearance of your Font menu. That’s where Adobe T^pe Reunion
Deluxe 2.0 (ATR) comes in. Many fonts, especially PostScript
fonts, can create unruly displays in your Font menu, with names
such as B Times Bold, I Bodoni Italic, or even CXBO Futura
Condensed Extra Bold Obhque. Because the Font menu displays
its contents in alphabetical order, families of fonts become spread
all over a needlessly long list. ATR pulls fonts back into their fam-
ilies; the family name appears just once, and the members of the
family (bold, italic, and so on) appear in a pop-out menu— a
much more satisfactory state of affairs. Also, ATR can display your
fonts in their actual typefaces.

New features include the ability to display selected typefaces in
groups and to place recently used faces at the top of the Font
menu, thus helping you avoid long scrolling times.

ATM and ATR have some joint tricks, too: ATR’s menu allows you
to open the ATM Control Panel or to open ATM sets without open-
ing die ATM program.

Overall, the new Adobe Hype Reunion offers solid improvements
over earlier versions, but it still is not as full-featured as some of its
competitors (see “Font Utility Alternatives,” p66). Adobe T^e
Manner has evolved into an essential utility that now manages your
fonts in addition to making them look good. —Jim Alley

Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4,0

GOOD NEWS: Now handles many of your font needs, thus
replacing several other utilities. Auto-activation and substitution
are valuable bonuses.

BAD NEWS: No way to create temporary sets.

Adobe TVpe Reunion Deluxe 2.0

GOOD NEWS: Much improved over earlier versions.

BAD NEWS: Still not as full-featured as the competition.

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Poser 2.0

DEVELOPER: Fractal Design

CONTACT: 800-846-0111, http://www.fractal.com

PRICE: $199 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: System 7 or later, Mac with an FPU (or PowerPC processor),
6MB of application RAM, color monitor

T he urge to play with Barbie dolls (or GI Joe “action figures,”
for those of you more militarily macho-minded) doesn’t go away
when you grow up. It just hides deep inside, which allows you
to get a job and function in society rather than play with dolls all
day. Fractal Design has thrown a wrench into this respectable way
of life with Poser 2.0. This software lets you pose one of severe
three-dimensional human figures in a near-infinite number of posi-
tions, anything from sitting to standing to being abducted by aliens.

The folks at Fractal have done much that is right in this program,
and that includes fine control of the figure. To change a figure’s pose,
merely select a tool fi’om the palette, click on a body part, and move,
twist, or lift it into the proper place. You can alter any part of a figure’s
body (for example, make it thin or fat, or give it Popeye forearms),
or you can choose from numerous poses and body types available in
a customizable library. Poser uses something called inverse kinematics
to control the way in which body parts move: If you move the hand,
the rest of the arm follows natur^y, bending the way that the wrist,
elbow, and shoulder joints bend.

You have a choice of an adult male, adult female, child, skeleton,
mannequin, or “stick” figure, and you select casual or business attire
for it. With a couple of mouse clicks, you can change camera angles
and add lighting effects. About the only thing Poser doesn’t allow you
to control is what the head looks like. M Poser figures are bald (unless
you add a hair “prop,” which basically is a digital toupee and works
about as well as you’d expect) . And you have no control over facial
features. Unfortunately, because so much of a human figure’s presence
and emotion are carried in the face, Poser figures all look similar.

You aren’t limited to human forms in Poser. You can bring objects
in several 3D file formats (3DMF, Wavefront OBJ) into Poser to use
as props. These objects, which can range from briefcases to battle-
ships, can be linked to your figure so that they move with it. You also
can import PICT images to use as backgrounds (try creating a wild
world with MetaTools’ KPT Bryce as a background for your Poser
figure), or you can import QuickTime or AVI movies to use as back-
grounds in animations.

Poser’s animation studio lets you bring your figure to life. By pos-
ing a figure in various keyframes, you can play drill sergeant and
have it doing jumping jacks in no time. These animations can be
saved as QuickTime movies or as a series of PICT files.

Although Poser is great at rendering the human form (which is
notoriously difficult to get just right), it is limited. This is where other
graphics programs come in. Just import your Poser image into your
favorite graphics program (or QuickTime movie into an animation
studio), and you can do further detail work, tweaking your figure to
near-perfection.

If you’re interested in art or animation involving human forms
(or just want to satisfy your desire to revert to childhood) , Poser 2.0

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And that’s it. Poser fills in
aft the frames between
keyframes, delivering a
QuickTime movie ot your
animation. You can save
your animation in a variety
of formats, including a
series of stills.

Creating a basic Poser animation is easy and fun. Well, more fun
than with traditional 3D rendering and animation applications.

Select the first keyframe and put your figure in the starting pose.

Then select the final keyframe and put your figure in its final pose.

is a great place to start. It runs with decent speed on any Mac with a
math coprocessor and it was also amazingly responsive on a 180MHz
604e, and the interface is clean and powerM. If Poser included some
way to change facial expressions (and some less-ruggish way to do
hair), it would be dam near perfect. As it is, it’s the digital doll of
choice. — David Reynolds

GOOD NEWS: Making human forms is easy. Intuitive interface for basic
operations. Painless animation. Lots of import and export formats.

BAD NEWS: Figures tend to look the same. Need other software
tools to customize Poser figures.

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NacInTuc Deluxe

DEVELOPER: Intuit

CONTACT: 800-446-8848, httpWwww.lntuit.com
PRICE: $49.95, $24.95 state versions (street)
REQUIREMENTS: SMB of RAM, 68030 or faster,
System 7.0 or later, CD-ROM drive

B ack in 1991, MacInTax was little
more than a set of IRS forms with
manual entry and automatic totaling.
Still, that alone made doing your taxes a bit
easier. Now it’s 1997 and darned if MacIn-
Tax doesn’t have videos, IRS publications,
two top-selling tax strategy books, flexible
data entry options, and add-on modules
for preparing state returns — in short,
everything that you could ask for when
preparing your taxes, other than the
ability to eliminate them entirely.

MacInTax provides two methods of
entering tax data: straight into the forms or
through an interview process. (Also, you
can import tax data from Quicken and
other personal finance programs.) The
interview method is slower, but a better bet
for those unfamiliar with the process. Swap-
ping between methods is no problem.

The interview method has a clean
interface divided into seven sections, each
represented by a tabbed folder icon. Simply
go through the sections one at time, answer
MacInTax’s questions, and before too long
your tax forms are filled out. Help is always
available: click on the help button for
advice on tax laws, help with the program
itself, and actual IRS publications. At times
you’ll be able to see a video about a
commonly confusing subject — capital
gains or selling a home, for example, lliese
videos also link to the corresponding
section of an IRS publication.

The interview process is streamlined
from last year’s version, making it less
tedious for those who are more familiar
with tax forms and laws. For example,
instead of forcing you to go to a separate
screen to enter data from each line on a
W-2 form, the program now groups most of
the W-2 lines onto one interview screen.

And, if you get antsy

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on a fine point of filing your taxes, MacInTax can
spring to the rescue with an array of well-
deployed resources.

If you get stuck on an unfamiliar section,
simply jump back to the interview. At any
time, you can click on the navigator button
to find out how far along you are, which
interview topics you have completed, and
how much more ground you still have to
cover. Additionally, you can at any time
review your return for errors. You can fix
them on the spot or display them in a list,
fixing them as you feel up to it.

Once you have entered your data and
fixed any errors that MacInTax has found,
you can print the forms or submit them
electronically. If you’ve bought one of
Intuit’s state modules (they’re available for
all 45 states that have state income taxes),
you can have it automatically extract perti-
nent information from your completed
federal return — a true timesaving feature.
State forms can be purchased and down-
loaded jfrom Intuit’s Web site, and an
interview, as well as forms, are included.

Personally, I prefer just using the forms
for doing taxes. I find it faster. But for any-
one who is leery of doing their own taxes or
who isn’t sure what the heck the line on the
form is asking, then the interview is
extremely helpful. And Intuit has definitely
improved the integration between the two
methods so you’re not boxed into just one
or the other. Given that you have to do taxes,
this is the only way to go. — Cheiyl England

GOOD NEWS: Very flexible data entry options. Tons of excellent
tax and program help. Streamlined interview method. Good
resource publications included.

BAD NEWS: It still won’t make April 15 go away.

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Command & Conquer

DEVELOPER: Westwood Studios

CONTACT: 800-874-4607, http://www.westwood.com

PRICE: $49.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, System 7.5 or later, SMB of RAM, 40MB of hard
disk space, CD-ROM drive (for Internet play: 16MB of RAM, MacIPX Control
Panel, 14.4Kbps modem or faster Internet connection)

A S with all real-time strategy games, Command & Conquer
provides an almost-real-world experience. Units can move only
so quickly, but while you dink with a platoon here, you might be
attacked over there. But when compared with other real-time strategy
games, such as Microsoft’s Close Combat (Nov/96, p80) and Blizzard
Entertainment’s Warcraft II (Dec/96, p86), C&C takes the field.

Even though C&C originated on the PC, Westwood replaced C&C’s
original VGA graphics with super-clean, high-resolution screens.
Although individual units are small (but easier to see than those in
Gose Combat) , you can make out which weapon they’re carrying and
even watch them drop for push-ups if left idle too long. These details
give C&C a less cartoony feel than Warcraft II, with its lumbering Ores.

In C&C, you choose which side to play, the United Nations-
sanctioned Global Defense Initiative, or GDI, (the good guys) or the
Brotherhood of Nod (the bad guys). From then on, you are assigned
mission after mission, each expanding your objectives and available
arsenal. Sometimes a failure will set you back, sometimes it means the
end of all you hold dear — Game Over.

Gameplay makes C&C worthwhile. You control your units in real
time, leading them to attack, patrol, or defend; you also manage
resources, build bases, and, once you’ve knocked out the enemy’s
surface-to-air missile sites, call in airstrikes. Even tactical nukes are at
your disposal. Missions range from inserting a commando into an
enemy base to rescuing a captured scientist to wiping the enemy off the
face of the earth. All require strategic and tactical planning. You can’t
win without building a strong base and creating a hefty attack force, but
simply having these assets doesn’t guarantee a win. The enemy, via
artificial intelligence, harasses you with incursive raids and diversion-
ary tactics, and it won’t always fall for your traps. Maneuvering the ter-
rain and knowing enemy troop position and strength, and the enemy
base layout, are crucial for success, as is a smart use of specific

Conquer This!

There are no cheat codes in Command &

Conquer and no sure-fire ways to win every
time, but here are a few rules of thumb that will
I help save you from flaming defeat.

1 , Build up your forces.

2. Don’t bunch up against flamethrowers.

3. To beat a pesky Obelisk of Light, either
attack with a huge swarm of disposable troops,
which might take it out between recharges, or
try to take out the power plants that feed It.

4. Be sure to set your base near a replenishing
tiberium field, then defend It well.

troops and vehicles.
Strategy game fans
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must continually

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the blue-sky weapons you’ll have at your disposal.

WALK RIGHT IN: A strongly defended base is key. Oddly, the guy with
the flamethrower Is doing real damage to the northern guard tower.

harvest tiberium. It’s one of those things that doesn’t really fit, much
like the barracks’ amazing ability to chum out soldiers so far fi:om
any population source. Missions range across Africa and Eastern
Europe, but the game uses only a few terrains, and some maps are
unnecessarily maze-like. Also, the interface has a few oddities, such
as the Options menu being accessible only via the Escape key, and
(Warcraft players, note) once you’ve selected a unit and moved it, it
remains selected. Make sure you remember to deselect it.

C&C is networkable over the Internet. Local-area network action
is as smooth as silk, and the chat function adds greatly to gameplay.
For Internet games, you must register (fi-ee) wiA a Westwood chat
server, and then gather or join a game. However, we tried many times
to join or set up a game but were unsuccessfiff due to busy servers.

These quibbles aside, C& is one immersive game. Gose Combat has
a higher fector of realism, but micromanagement is a bonus in
Command & Conquer, not a constant worry. Each mission takes one
to four hours, not counting mission replays. When you’ve won as the
GDI, you can play all-new missions as Nod, or vice versa. Your
greatest challenge will be the return to civilian life. — D. D, Turner

GOOD NEWS: Tough, addictive gameplay. High-quality graphics.
Good opponent intelligence. Network play locally or on the Internet.
BAD NEWS: A few control problems with tiny units. Bad guys are
always better equipped.

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Epson PhotoPC 500

DEVELOPER: Epson America
CONTACT: 800-G0-EPS0N, http://www.epson.com
PRICE: $499 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 68040 or PowerPC, System 7.5 or later, SMB of RAM (16MB
recommended), 25MB of hard disk space, CD-ROM drive, serial port, 256 colors

L et me come dean. I opened the box to Epson’s newest foray
into the digital camera arena expecting to like it. like it? Hell, I
expected to love it. The original PhotoPC (now downgraded to red-
headed stepchild) was one of my favorites among the plethora
of budget-priced digital cameras out at the time. Epson’s camera
delivered consistendy sharp images and remarkably good color in both
natural lighting and in flash mode. However, it had a few shortcomings.

The good news is Epson fixed them. The bad news is. . .well, there is
no bad news. Really. The new PhotoPC 500 is leaner and meaner and
contains no MSG. Its 24-bit color images still look as crisp and sharp
as ever, only now you have more of them to love.

The original PhotoPC came with 1MB of RAM, which translated into
the ability to take a whopping eight high-resolution photos or 24 low-
resolution photos before having to go home and download. The
PhotoPC 500 comes with 2MB of RAM, which allows the shooter to

NOW WITH LESS MASS!: The PhotoPC 500’s slimmed-down shape fits
your hand much better, and it holds more pictures than its predecessor.

snap 30 640-x-480-pixel, high-res or 60 320-x-240-pixel, “standard”-
res photos. This boost lifts the PhotoPC 500 up to the top of the photo
storage heap and helps make all the difference when choosing to pack
the camera along on a day trip or not. To be fair, both cameras could
accept more memory. An extra 2MB memory module runs $199; an
extra 4MB module, $299. But let’s face it, who wants a product that
you essentially have to upgrade right out of the box?

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automatic aperture of f2.8 to f8 is an improvement over the PhotoPC
pere’s maximum aperture of f5.6.

For consumers \rfio love the shape
and feel of a brick, the original PhotoPC
was the answer to their prayers. Epson
has since put the camera on a strict celery
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a hefty pound and a half to a svelte %
pound. The PhotoPC 500 is more of an
ergonomically sensitive ’90s kind of
camera, fitting into the curve of the hand
like a. . .smaller, gray brick.

With the PhotoPC 500, Epson replaced
the adequate-but-clunky EasyPhoto with a
program called PhotoPC 500 Imaging
Software. (Nice ring, don’t you think?) The
bundled software is split into two parts:

Epson Photo!, with which you fine-tune the downloading process, and
Epson PhotoPC 500, with which you group photos into “albums” and
then manipulate them through an Adobe Photoshop-like interface.

Downloading images from the camera takes the touch of a but-
ton. You may prefer to preview them in Epson Photo! so you can pick
and choose. Images save to the hard drive in just 13 seconds each.

One of the beefs I had with EasyPhoto was the way it grouped
thumbnail im^es into “galleries.” Conceptually, the idea was great:
You saw all the images from Unde Fester’s party when you sat down
to select which ones to tweak and which to trash. It was like having

negatives in the little folder fi-om Fotomat. Unfortunately, somebody
thought it would be cool to make the galleries look like long strips of
negatives. It wasn’t. The new PhotoPC 500 Imaging Software groups
images into photo “albums” that display all
the thumbnails onscreen at the same time.
Double clicking a thumbnail triggers the
image-editing package.

The software has most of the basic
image-correction tools, but it took some
time to find everything. Photoshop-sawy
users will probably miss the curves palette
for color correction. Buried under the
Image menu, however, are RGB sliders and
Brightness/Contrast controls.

The text tool works in the same way as
Photoshop’s. T^ed text becomes a floating
layer until you drop it. Setting the back-
ground color took some searching but was
pretty intuitive once I found it. PhotoPC 500
features nonadjustable controls for blurring and sharpening with only
two choices: a little and a lot. The program makes up for this rigidity
by including fiiUy adjustable Unsharp Mask under the Filter menu.

At a list price of around $500, Epson has delivered a great package
for anyone fi*om novice to fiili-blown pkelhead to get into digital
photography. — Hqy Larsen

GOOD NEWS: Good storage capacity in price range.

Sharp images and good color.

BAD NEWS: Some software awkwardness.

FINDING A KEEPER: This screen is where you select
photos to download to the hard drive. A few points are
confusing; for example, what does that High Quality
button mean, exactly?

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CONTACT: 905-882-2600, http://www.atitech.com
PRICE: $269 for 2MB version, $349 for 4MB version (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac with one free PCI expansion slot, System 7.5.2 or
later, 16MB of RAM

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HERE’S Vi/HERE IT ALL HAPPENS: Not only
does the ATI Displays control panel look cool,
it gives you useful information.

I ne of the Mac’s most elegant features, one which we’ve always
held in the faces of PC users, was that we didn’t need to config-
ure sound cards, video cards, or mouse drivers. Everything we
needed was built in, right? Well, not so much. If you wanted to cap-
ture or export video with the 7500 and 8500 series, you could get only
l60-x-120-pixel windows at 30 frames per second (^s). Also, some
Macs (such as the Performa 6400) couldn’t
take enough video RAM to get better than 256
colors on a 17-inch monitor. It was enough to
make you give in, crack your Mac’s case, and
slide in an actual board.

The solution is at hand. For most people,

ATI Technology’s Xclaim VR might be the
board to grab, with its 5-in-l offering of
QuickDraw 3D acceleration, enhanced reso-
lution and color depth options, QuickTime
capture and playback, and the Mac2TV ability
to run your Mac’s display on a television. The
price for the 2MB Xclaim VR is about that of
two 1MB VRAM chips, which alone will give
you thousands of colors on a 17-inch monitor
but won’t do bupkus for the rest. And for
users with non-VRAM-upgradable Macs, this
may be the only way to get the color depth that Adobe Photoshop
and, OK, games, require.

Installation is easy. Simply open your Mac, find an empty PCI slot
that will fit a 7-inch board, and gently setde the board. The manual has
plenty of illustrations and suggestions to shepherd the newbie through
the process. Software installation is easy, too. Slap in the supplied
floppy, double-click the installer, restart, and the ATI Displays control
panel is there for your use. And usefiil it is, giving you not only control
of the Xclaim VR’s features but also a Display Details window that
provides information about the various software components you’ve
just installed, an option to set keyboard shortcuts for changing your
desktop settings, and even the ATI Guide, an AppleGuide resource in
case you can’t quite figure out what you’re doing.

QuickTime Capture and Playback

First off, the Xclaim VR makes no claims to be a professional
video-capture solution; pros will need to capture larger than a 320-x-
40 window, even at 30 ^s. However, for most users, who want to
make the full-motion equivalent of snapshots or to input home movies
for editing, this beats any option available on a stock machine.

All you have to do, with your Mac and video source (camcorder,
VCR, digital camera) turned off, is plug composite or S-Video cables
from the Xclaim VR’s ports to the source, turn on the units, and launch

Remote Control

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the included ATI Video Player application.
(Alternately, you can use any third-party video-
capture software, such as Intelfigence at
Large’s MovieStar, as long as it recognizes the
ATI Video Digitizer as a source.) You can get
live playthrough from your camcorder to
monitor the scene, and also set compression,
capture frame rate, keyframes, and quality on
a scale of 1 to 100. We had no problem get-
ting 30 ^s at 320 x 240 and found the video
to be excellent, though not broadcast quality.
One difficulty is that because the hardware
plays its accelerated video in a overlayed layer
on the screen, you can’t play back the captured
video with acceleration without quitting Video
Player. To check your work, you’ll have to quit
Video Player, run the clip, and if it’s not perfect, launch Video Player
again, and maybe again.

One tip: Capture large, then scale down. It will take more
memory (even 320 x 240 takes up 60MB of hard disk space for 15
seconds of footle) and more compression time, but resizing
upward is always riskier, quality-wise.

When you play a QuickTime movie, even in the humble
MoviePlayer, the Xclaim VR’s hardware acceleration is obvious. Scal-
ing any movie, even a low-res clip dovmloaded from the Internet,
calls up the board’s hardware acceleration, which uses a witches’
brew of alpha blending and chroma interpolation. The result is easy
to test: Hitting Command-2 (MoviePlayer’s normal Double Size fime-
tion) uses only the software’s pixel-doubling algorithm, which looks
maybe OK. Drag the movie’s window to about double size, and the
Xclaim VR kicks in — ^the movie looks like smooth video on a dedi-
cated editing deck, with no pixelation. Even at fiill-screen size, we
didn’t notice any dropped fimes or audio skips. One note: Quick-
Time movies must be compressed in Cinepak or Indeo format to take
advantage of the card’s scaling abilities. Fortunately, most clips you’ll
encounter use these codecs.

Two-dimensional Graphics

Although the Xclaim VR speeds some classic (i.e., non-3D)

74 MacADDICT

QuickDraw operations, M doesn’t sell this card as a 2D graphics
accelerator, and wisely. People looking at this for Photoshop filter
acceleration or the like will be disappointed. This simply is not what
the Xclaim VR does. It wiU, however, to a small degree, speed scrolls
along large images or files. Rather than speed increases, the major
benefit is the extra color bit-depth at hi^er resolutions. With our
4MB Xclaim VR, we were able to display millions of colors at up to
1,280 X 1,024 pixels at a flicker-free 75Hz on a 17-inch monitor.
With the standard onboard VRAM, we could get that resolution but
only at thousands of colors. Again, simply adding the same amount
of VRAM to your motherboard would set you back about the price of
the Xclaim VR card. How do they do it? Volume!

Mac2TV

Say you’ve got a big-screen TV and want to show off your home
movies to friends or demo a program. Sometimes a 17-inch monitor
just isn’t big enough. With Mac2TV, you can connect ATI’s video-out
cable (supplied) to either a composite or S-Video input on your TV
(make sure your TV and computer are turned off first, though).
From within the ATI Displays control panel, click the Mac2TV button,
and turn on Video Output. Your TV will mirror your monitor.

With composite output, there was a good deal of banding on the
TV’s screen — text smaller than 18 points or so was lost, and larger
text was still difficult to read, no matter how we adjusted the sharp-
ness and other controls. Movies, especially full-screen ones, looked
good; although not broadcast quality, they worked for a presentation
or for a “gather ’round the screen, kids.” With a composite output,
text was fine on a large-screen TV, and movies were impressive.
It still wasn’t monitor quality, but what are your chances of getting
access to a 27-inch monitor? For less than $350?

QuickDraw 3D Acceleration

OK, the real reason why a lot of people are going to buy this
board is that it comes with Bungie’s latest game. Weekend Warrior,
which uses QuickDraw 3D 1.5 to create a totally rendered world
on the fly You could run this program on a sufficiently fast Mac
(say, about 225MHz), but you’d still lose certain features, such as
transparencies. Or, you could keep your slower machine and let
the card do the heavy lifting, which it does quite well. Reality Byte’s
Havoc and Balanda’s upcoming Damage also will show sizeable
speed gains, and more than a dozen “real” apphcations such as
Fractal Design Detailer and RayDream Studio, Specular’s Infini-D
3.5, Strata’s StudioPro 2.0, and NewTek’s Lightwave 3D also will
reap the benefits.

We ran our tests using Gerbils! 1.03, a free program from
Pangaea Software that demonstrates QuickDraw 3D’s capabflities.
With basic textures on, a standard Performa 6400 ran at 15 to 30
^s, while the 6400 with the Xclaim VR churned out 25 to 55 ft)s.
With all the textures, including sky and rain, the gap was less
dramatic but still pronounced: 10 to 18 versus 15 to 28 ^s.

The Xclaim VR won’t improve your breath or posture, but it will
do almost everything else to improve your visual Mac experience.
Serious videographers and power graphics gurus may want to look
at more specialized (and expensive) cards, but the majority
of people — ^who want improved multimedia capabilities, 3D
acceleration, a neat TV-out feature, and colors colors colors —
couldn’t do any better. — D.D. Turner

Hoyle (lassie
Gaines

PUBLISHER: Sierra On-Une

CONTACT: 206-649-9800, httpy/www.sierra.com

PRICE: $24.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 68040 or PowerPC, System 7.1 or later, SMB of RAM,
2X CD-ROM, SMB of hard disk space

M ac card game enthusiasts can sleep easy, now that Sierra has
released Hoyle Classic Games, one package with eight card
and two board games: Poker, Bridge, Cribbage, Crazy 8’s,
Hearts, Sofitaire, Old Maid and Gin, and Backgammon and Checkers.

Hoyle Classic gives you a great variety of playing options. You
can choose from three Merent types of opponents — animated char-
acters, icons, and business — each with a skill level and a biography.
Playmates are female, male, elderly, youthful, black, Asian, white,
reptilian, or canine, not to mention beginner, average, or expert.

TAKE ANOTHER CARD, IF YOU DARE: There are plenty of fun backgrounds
and characters , which is good, because gameplay needs the boost.

The animated cartoons speak and seem to interact with each other.
The Attitude Meter adjusts their sportsmanship from serious to absurd.
You also have a choice of rooms, music, and decks — ^from Suspense
(m^^tery music) to Rain Forest (jungle sounds) to Urban (hip hop).

Still, none of these bells and whistles can turn a game of Crazy 8’s
into anything other than, well, a game of Crazy 8’s. Even though
response time and game speed are adjustable, the games — other
than poker, perhaps— are hardly challenging. Hearts and Gin require
a little thought, but Solitaire is no better than the shareware versions,
and Old Maid is a no brainer. The two board games are the weakest
spots of the set — Backgammon’s interface is far from intuitive, and
Checkers feels rote.

Nonetheless, the games do provide interesting visual effects, and
decent artificial intelligence. A minus is that although the set includes
files which explain game rules, nowhere is the interface explained.

For $24.95, Hoyle Classic Games is OK. But if you’re not already a
card lover, this won’t make you one. — Rebecca Lynn Eisenberg

GOOD NEWS: Easy installation. Adds multipie and powerfui capa-
biiities. Reasonable price.

BAD NEWS; Composite output to TV gives difficult-to-read text.
ATI Video Player conflicts with Connectix’s RAM Doubler 2.

GOOD NEWS: A great variety of environments. Decent gamepiay.
Low price.

BAD NEWS: No game is outstanding.

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FIND A
DEMO OF
Prime Target
on The Disc.

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Prime Target ‘

PUBLISHER; MacSoft

CONTACT: 800-229-2714, http://www.wizworks.com
PRICE: $34.99 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC processor, SMB of RAM, CD-ROM drive

ZPC

PUBLISHER: GT Interactive Software

CONTACT: 800-469-5961 xW600, http://www.zombie.com

PRICE: $49.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 68040 or PowerPC processor, SMB of RAM, 2X CD-ROM drive

mitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or something like that. But
when people pay to flatter — as when MacSoft and GT Interactive
Software licensed Bungee’s Marathon engine — ^it goes beyond
sincere to worshipful. Although both Prime Target and ZPC are based
on Marathon, the two games take separate approaches to look-and-
feel, and that makes all the difference.

Prime Target is set on election eve 2004. You play a former Secret
Service agent who receives a call from a friend, Senator Cathryn

Mayfield. Armed men have entered
a Senate office building and are
fi'antically searching for some-
thing. You go to her rescue, shoot-
ing all who shoot at you. You meet
goons, guards, ninjas, skinheads,
mercenaries, and muscleheads,
showing them the business end of
several weapons and shooting
your way through Washington,
D.C., as you try to find out who’s
behind the mayhem.

Prime Target capitalizes on the

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CLINT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?: The cut
scenes in Prime Target aren’t really movies, but they
are all the plot you gel Think a more static MTV ad.

As of press time, we weren’t able to get our
sweaty little hands on a copy of MacSoft’s
other Marathon-engine title, Damage
Incorporated. This is another first-person
shooter, but the twist is that you’ll be able to
command four Marines at a time (three other
than your viewpoint, that is), in a sort of
Command & Conquerish way. MacSoft
promises six missions with more than 30
levels. No ambiguity here, just enhanced tac-
tics and enhanced carnage. One interesting
feature is that each Marine has a personality
and certain skills that affect his probability of
completing particular tasks; this means that
you must not only play your own game but
also be careful whom you send to do what.

Marathon engine: Gameplay is
fast; bullets move at realistic
speeds; you can jump and crouch;
doors swing open; blood splatters;
bullets leave holes in the wall;
office furniture pushes out of the
way. You find items such as
memos (which provide dues),
and a headset radio (which lets
you hear what your opponents are
doing — sometimes). You pick up
various weapons (from a Beretta
to a nitrogen gun), and you keep
yourself healthy by fintog ban-
dages and medical kits.

The action in Prime Target is
rockin’. Fast movement combined
with a well-tuned engine serve to
keep the adrenaline level high.
Headphones are a definite plus
when playing Prime Target, as you

WE’RE ZOMBIES. WE’RE SUPPOSED TO DRESS ALIKE: It’s a grim, grim
world In ZPC, and you’re the Reaper. Those silver things are Nectar of
the Vanquished, which makes you feel better.

can hear the direction fi*om which opponents are approaching.

ZPC (Zero Population Count) takes a different approach, empha-
sizing style and story. ZPC has a tone all its own, with stunning con-
structivist-style artwork by Aidan Hughes and music by folks from the
bands Ministry and Revolting Cocks. This disturbing world feels like
a cross between Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. In this first part of
a trilogy, you’re a Psionic Warrior Messiah returned fi'om cryonic
sleep to defeat the Black Brethren in a world of bureaucrats,
soldiers, supplicants, and zombies. You have two weapons at your dis-
posal: the Johnny 7 multipurpose gun and your chi punch. Your
Johnny 7 (a very cool gun) is more versatile than anything Ronco ever
released. Use it to bludgeon, fire grenades, and wreak havoc in many
other ways. Your chi punch, on the other hand, isn’t so
powerful. It’s more useful as a tool. You can use it in the same way
you grenade-hop in Marathon: Look down, punch, and you’ll be fly-
ing through the air. To recover health, you feed on the Nectar of the
Vanquished, which appears after defeating a foe.

With all this imagination, ZPC gets off to a great start. But then
it stalls. The game’s story fine takes place between levels, sphtting
plot and action. The game engine is slow compared with Prime
Target’s, so dodging bullets and zombie spit is an easy task.
Although the artwork is undeniably cool, it goes only so far. After
playing a few levels of ZPC, you come to the reahzation that what’s
behind the style is run-of-the-mill carnage. Not had, but we’ve
been there before. — David Reynolds
P. S. Even though these games are based on the Marathon engine,
the Marathon Cheater won’t work on your saved files. We tried. Oh, and
Forge and Anvil won’t modify maps or shapes, either.

Prime Target

GOOD NEWS: Fast gameplay. Cool mystery story. Details such as
blood stains and bullet holes appear in response to your actions.
BAD NEWS: Cheesy backstory for main character.

ZPC

GOOD NEWS: Great concept and artwork. Fun to be a Psionic
Messiah. Works on ’040-based Macs.

BAD NEWS: Gameplay is slower than in Prime Target Feels a
lot like Marathon infinity with a new set of shapes, textures,
and sounds.

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strategy classic. Scores of new hero

and monster types, alliance formation for team play, enlarged

combat maps, increased multi-player options, and a flexible

World Builder” module are

just a few of the reasons why Heroes II for Macintosh will

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O ne can’t think of a better way to enjoy the sights and sounds of pregnant, dote on cats, patronize Picasso, or think a certain crime-
springtime than being locked away in a dark house engrossed fighting insect and his mothraan sidekick are keen. Only one disc dared
in CD-ROMs. This month we look at five titles: four tempted to make to disappoint, leaving gold diggers empty-handed. Read on to discover
holing up in your home even more pleasant, especially if you’re how best to cultivate your disc collection. —Joe Mahr

's Interactive Guide to Pregnancy

FIND A
DEMO OF
The Tick
vs. The
Uncommon
Cold on
The Disc.

?UrtlSHh.K Simon and
Schuster Interactive
UDfr-3T; 800-910-0099,

http://www.ssfnteractive.com ;

PRICE $39.95 (SRP)

2X CD-ROM, System 7.1 or later,
68040 or faster, SMB of RAM

I f you’re pregnant (or would like to be),
chat with a group of girlfriends for all
the down-and-dirty details surrounding
the blessed event in this nauseatingly
so-cute-you’ll-want-to-puke CD-ROM.

The disc, based on a book by Vickie
lovine (mother of four), takes nervous
mommies through the ins and outs of preg-
nancy by calling in the girls to dish out
advice. You’ll find fashion faux pas, tips on
preparing for baby and keeping momma
sane, and, of course, enough sex talk to

make junior high school boys blush.

Gab fests are broken up with cheesy
games such as Gene Genie, in which a slot
machine figures out what Junior might look
like based on the parents’ traits, and
Girlfriend in Distress, in which dads must
answer questions to rescue the damsel in the

GIRLFRIEND’S BABYTALK DELIVERS a neal
bundle of advice to about-to-be'moms.

The Tick vs. The Uncommon Col

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800-771-1344, WIIhH

http://www.inverse.com

$9.99 (street) \ ' -

2X CD-ROM,

System 7.0 or later, 68020 or faster, SMB of RAM

LET THIS CHEAP TICK disc burrow into your system.

O K, the Fox network’s cartoon crime
fighter, the Tick, takes to the even
smaller screen in this CD-ROM
version of the Saturday morning show that
pits the superhero gainst a tough cold as
well as a snotty alien bent on (you guessed
it), world domination.

The Tick’s hilarious phlegm-soaked battle
is spewed over 100 fi’ames in 20 interactive
screens. Although every panel is a talkie,
some also show QuickTime movies or simple
animations. Chck through each panel manu-
ally, or set the computer to run through the
comic book on autopilot.

The content is unbeatable, especially for
the price, but the low-budget production
invites a few strange quirks. It’s unclear why
programmers chose to make animated
movies out of certain frames and not others.

castle. (Sample question: I do not see my
pregnant wife’s moodiness as an excuse to
start a fight. True or false?)

But, the banal games and powder puff
interface aside, this disc holds enough
straightforward, homey tips on getting
through those long nine months to make the
perfect gift for any mother-to-be.

The Last Words

Mark: This book-to~CD adaptation certainly
projects the proper cute-and-supportive aura,
but after running into a series of programming
errors, the effect is undermined.

Judy: Not craving anything weird, but if
I were, I might just want to have these girl-
friends around.

Joe: Yeah, it’s got all the right things —
humor, tips, and maneuverability — but it just
seems a Httie too campy.

It’s also hard to distinguish when a video clip
is finished or only resting.

Passive parties may want to tuck away their
cash and catch the cartoon on Comedy Central
while Inverse Ink irons these rou^ spots.
True Tick fans, however, won’t want to wait.

The Last Words:

Mark: This time around I’d say that only
serious Tick buffs need this, even at its
bargain price.

Judy: Kids, grown-ups, grandma, the
dog — everyone should see this. I’m both a
comic book and a Tick neophyte. What have I
been missing?

Joe: I probably wouldn’t buy this if it were
Superman or anything, because I don’t get
into those kinds of comics. But for the Tick,
I’d plunk down a couple bucks.

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Eyewitness Virtual Reality: Cats

PURLiSHFH DK Multimedia
fiN an 800-356-6575,
http://www.dk.com
PR»C£: $29.95 (street)

HP0UiREMENrS:2X CD-ROM,

System 7.0 or later, 68040 or faster, SMB of RAM

D K Multimedia iSnally lets the cat
out of the bag with a feline exposi-
tion filled with so many facts on
your favorite little fuzzball that cat lovers
will be purring with satisfaction.

Discover just how your cat’s ancestors
traded in a life in the wild for an occasional
attack on the garbage can. Find out why
the ancient Egyptians worshiped cats and
the ground they shed on. Gander at the
amazing flexible feline skeleton.

When the disc opens, you are inside a

3D museum with about 100 exhibits detailing
kitty history. Visit cougars, fions, tigers,
jaguars, and, of course, domestic cats. If you
are confused about where to go, take one of
four short tours, which give you a point to
jump off and explore.

THE JOY OF CATS without the yucky litter box.

Like most of DK Multimedia’s ventures, this
disc bn^s a clean interface and loads of infor-
mation. However, unlike most DK ventures,
the title falls woefully short on videos. Luckily,
that shortcoming doesn’t dampen too much
the effect of the disc, which reaps accolades
that might draw even (gasp) ... dog lovers.

The Last Words:

Mark: The museum simulation is great, and
the design, interface, selection of material,
and depth of content are all totally top-notch.
Judy: Good room-to-room movement; could
use more QuickTime movies and better naviga-
tion, but still purringly informative.

Joe: Even if it gets a htde boring, you can
flip over to the “cat sounds” section, click
on a roaring lion, and freak your cats out
for a while.

Picasso: the Nan, his Works, the Legen

Groiier Interactive
203-797-3530,
http;//www.grolier.com
F $39.99 (street)

REOUmEMEfUF; 2X CD-ROM,

System 7.1 or later, 68030 or faster, 5MB of RAM

H OW did Pablo go firom painting Sears-
style portraits to creating the freakish
masterpieces that made him famous?
Watch the young Spanish painter lose his artis-
tic inhibitions over 80 years and 600 works.

Each of the artist’s 17 periods is highlight-
ed by one piece, which this disc analyzes and
compares with his past and future works. For
non-artsy majors, we’re talking types of lines,

textures, and colors. Groiier also tosses in
some hip mood music, and video footage to
keep less diehard fans from dozing.

Unfortunately, the title’s navigation is also
built around artistic designs, a definite head-
shaker until you learn the langu^e.

Still, this CD packs a
colorful palette of history
and analysis on the great
artist by sticking to what’s
important: Picasso’s life and
work. Through that focus,
the disc earns a solid reputa-
tion that compensates for the
silly navigation. Sohd, but
not exceptional.

GROLIER PAINTS a pretty
picture of Pablo and his works.

The Last Words

Mark: Nothing truly stunning or unexpected,
but a quality job nonetheless.

Judy: The art and story are so fascinating
that they make up for getting lost. Picasso’s
work — ^the span and variety — ^is thoroughly
covered. Bravo!

Joe; OK, I’ll be the one to
sink to a junior high level.
The disc definitely has
pictures of naked people,
but, strangely enough, you
find yourself considering
the artistic implications of
the paintings. That dam
Picasso can ruin anything.

Klondike Gol

' ONA Multimedia and
Hyperborean Productions
A 800-661-0500
$64.95 (SRP)

F F. s 2X CD-ROM, System 7,0 or later,

Pop in the CD and its a lame history lesson
on the Yukon. It’s so lame there’s not even a
map to show exactly where the Yukon is
located. Instead, it offers pictures and many
words to “interactively” read off the screen.

A toasty bit includes a poem about a
miner who got really cold and asked his
buddy to cremate him upon his death. He
dies. He gets cremated and winds up
warm... well, sort of.

68040 or faster, 5MB of RAM

N ot that there’s anything wrong with
using cheap gimmicks to make a
quick buck — this is America — but
this disc crosses the line by promising a gold
rush and delivering a history lesson.

Here’s the scam. Disc makers apparendy
thought they couldn’t sell just a history of the
Yukon gold rush, so they included a pan, some
dirt, some flecks of gold (so they say), and a
booklet on how to mine for gold by mucking
up your bathtub. All for the low price of $65.

The Last Words:

Mark: The CD-ROM’s archival movies,
maps, photos, and audio clips would be nice
if they weren’t aH so relendessly dull.

Judy: No question about its historical value,
but interactive? Marketing the disc with a pan
and dirl/gold is clever, but the dust from the
box almost clogged my Mac.

Joe: Disc makers employ the same kind of
logic that drove men to abandon their families
and ruin their lives in search of gold in the
first place. Don’t become another statistic.

MacADDICT 79

reviews

reviews

Brisbane Elementary School Mac addicts get hands-on with the latest kids’ software.

FIND DEMOS
of Drawing
Discoveries,

The Time Warp
of Dr. Brain, and
Iz and Auggie
Escape from
Dimension Q
on The Disc.

How to Catch a Wild
Asparagus-Snatching Snagglysnort

PUBLISHER: Dfamar interactive^

CONTACT: 800-234-2627, http*7/www.dIamar.com
PRICE: $30 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.1 or later, 25MHz 68030 or
fasten 8MB of RAM, printer

R enowned monsterologist Golonel ; Picklewart teaches
kids the ins and outs of tracking a wild asparagus-
snatching snagglysnort in this CD-ROM activity book that
seems to be more paper based than pixel oriented. Unlike
most other hands-on CD-ROMs, Diamar’s disc supplies only
off-screen activities requiring printed instructions i^nd house-

^^^t-

■■

jthe players.Mj

HOLLY MILLER, Age 10, Grades

EXPERTISE: Soccer

PICK OF THE MONTH; Amazon Trail II

MAX OLIVA, Age 10, Grade 5
EXPERTISE; Sports

PICK OF THE MONTH: The Time Warp of Dr. Brain

MICHAEL KOWNTZ, Age 10, Grade 5

EXPERTISE; Bowling

PICK OF THE MONTH: Digital Lab

DANIEL LAM, Age 10, Grade 5
EXPERTISE: Math

PICK OF THE MONTH: The Time Warp of Dr. Brain

BRIAN SCHROEDER, Age 10, Grade 5

EXPERTISE; Basketball

PICK OF THE MONTH: Digital Lab

HILARY WALDO, Age 10, Grade 5

EXPERTISE: Soccer

PICK OF THE MONTH: Digital Lab

ALFONSO PICAZO, Age 10, Grade 5

EXPERTISE: Sports

PICK OF THE MONTH: Amazon Trail II

ERIC GRIFFIN, Age 10, Grades
EXPERTISE: Sports

PICK OF THE MONTH: The Time Warp of Dr. Brain

hold supplies^the rest of the disc fe merely a welHlIustrated story-
book slide show, the disc makers could have at least included a few
educational games or hidden clickabfes for the kids who actually want
to use their computers,

GOOD FOR GRADES; 1 to 5

LIKES: “You can make things Ih this program like a passport card
and some other stuff,” ■ Banfel

DISLIKES; “All the cra2y words would get little kids mixed up: There
ere not games, just pictures of thlrigs.” ■ Hilary

‘i did not like the fact that it
did not have educational games:”

SOUND ADVICE: would cut

down on the activities and concen-
trate on rriaking tlib ^ame better.” :
■ Eric

FINAL REPORT; Off-screen-only
activities are a bit of a waste.

Dinosaur, Explorers

vv

PUBLISHER: Memorcx SoftwareJ^

CONTACT: 310-403-0639, http://www.mrxsoftware.com
PRICE: $34.99 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.0 or later, 68030 or faster, SMB of RAM

D inosaur Explorers digs up the
dirt on our prehistoric predeces-
sors and hands over the goods in the
form of animated drawings, games,

“prehysterical” videos, and hundreds
of corny dino jokes. The animated
Intros to each dinosaur supply only
minimal information, but it’s fun and i
easy to remember. Tongue-twisting "1
dino names are helpfully spelled out and pron^ced/ Games such
as Dino Scramble, Dino Match Game, and Shuffle-O-Saurus may be
a little too simple for the old-timers, but they beat flashcards at any age
for Identifying and remembering which large lizard was which.

GOOD FOR GRADES: Preschool to 5

LIKES: “I like the pictures of the different dinosaurs and also the facts
It told me, like small dinosaurs can still be ferocious.” ■ Brian

“They tell you about dinosaurs in different ways that are fun.” ■ Hilary
DISLIKES: “! did not like that all the puzzles you do are so easy.”* Eric
“The TV is kind of blurry, and it’s pretty hard to watch TV in this
program.” ■ Daniel

SOUND ADVICE: “I think that there should be more games
because most of the games are not
the best.” ■ Holly
FINAL REPORT; Dino disc
proves more educational than
Jurassic Park, less frightening
than Barney.

80 MacADDfCI

UBLISHER: Digital impact"^

CONTACT: 800-775-4232, tmp://www.digitaiimpact.com
PRICE: $29.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 74 or later, 68030 or faster, 8MB of RAM

PUBLISHER: The Learning Company

CONTACT: 800-227-5609, http://www.learnIngco.com

PRICE: $35 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.1 or later, 68040 or faster, SMB of RAM

I OlAl Nico lo meet you I My name is Rosa. Welcome to Bel^m. I think you should choose
me to be your guide.

GRAB A GUIDE and drift toward an Amazonian aduenturei

EVOLUTIONARY DISC leaps to life on-screen.

O zzie, your

natured guide, and
four of his friends take you
on a scfentiffc search-and-
c^over mission that has
you playing educational
games onscreen and mak-
ing magic potisns off.

ExploFe any of the four
worlds hosted by
pals to find a selection ^
puzzles such as Silly Sorter and across about nine

project per screen tet take advantage of rtiaterials most fo!ks“have
around the house (Styrofoam balls, modeling clay, boiled beet juice) to
create scientific wonders such as tornadoes, eclipses, submarines,
and lainbows. Oh rr^.

GOOD FOfI GRADES: K tb4

LIKES; ^ liked that you-ean go do any subject you want.”

■ AifonsD

"The songs, the games, and the voices are cool and
funny: ■’■Holly

“The games were fun and you could learn a lot.” ■ Michael
DISLIKES: Tt does not let you do much. It just shows you
what to do. Utile kids get bored just clicking.” ■ Hilary

T disliked that every place you went ^it was the same
games exce^ with that subject;” ■ Eric
SOUND ADVICE: “Make some place that you could exper-
iment on the computer.” ■ Daniel

HIQLL REPORT: Ozzie’s science seems more fun off-
screenihan on.

L oad up the canoe and sharpen your fishing spears, you’re about
to set off for a 3D journey down the Amazon. Thanks to a strange
Incident at the Museum of Ancient Art, you suddenly find yourself
stranded in a town called Befom. Here you first rnust pick a guide and
buy your supplies before continuing on a mysterious mission to locate
a hidden fortress somewhere in the Amazon rain forest Along the
vyay, you’ll trek through a flooded forest, a marsh, a forest floor and a:
cSnopy. You photograph and Identify the wildlife as well as interact'
with the native peoples to advance toward your goal. Three levels of
gameplay make for an endless educational adventure.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 4 and up

LIKES: “I liked fishing because I finaijy found out how to do it” ■ Holly
liked the graphics a lot and the good real view of people instead
of cartoon people.” ■ Brian

“I liked the whole program.” ■ Alfonso
DISLIKES: “The signs were hard to see on the side.” ■ Max

)''^1 didn’t like th^ when the soear was rioht in the fish, you didnTi

catch It.” ■ Eric
SOUND ADVICE:
“Make more guides
in this program efid
make it easier td
catch a fish when
you go fishing.”
■ Daniel

FINAL REPORT:

Exotic^ ecological
journey keeps kids
fighting for the sur-
vival of the smartest.

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; PUBLISHER; Philips Media

CONTACT:'^ 800-883-3767, http://www.philipsmedia.coin
PRICE: $39.95 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.0.1 or later, 25MHz 68040 or faster, SMB of
RAM, 9-volt battery

D igital doings cease to be a mystery as kids go down to the wire
learning why electronics work in Philips Media’s hands-on
Digital Lab kit. Kids get comfortable with components by setting up a
workbench using a prepackaged set of springs, wires, resistors,
capacitors, and chips. Once they’ve got the basics in place, young
engineers can use the CD-ROM to guide them through 12 different
projects such as Light Chaser, Sound Counter, and Random Number
Generator that bring the board to life. The disc also includes some
obligatory games, as well as lively onscreen Introductions to the kit’s
components, a guide to what makes various gadgets work, and a fast-
paced slide show explaining digital basics such as
computer chips, and how computers think.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 3 and up

LIKES: “I liked this program because I learned about the Piezo
Transducer, the 401 1 NAND gate, the push button, capacitors, resistors,
the 4029 binary counter, the 4028 siren light, orderly blinking lights, and
facts.” ■ Brian

“It Is not just a computer game, it is hands-on learning.” ■ Hilary

DISLIKES: “It’s hard to set up the board, this program does not come
with a battery, and the fortuneteller game doesn’t say the truth.” ■ Daniel
“Your hands really hurt after setup, but I liked everything else” ■ Hilary
SOUND ADVICE: “When it told you to connect the 64 and 65,
I would want it to say the color of the wire instead of showing it.” ■ Eric
FINAL REPORT; Lights up your life with just a few well-placed LEDs.

MacADDICT 81

^ PUBLISHER: Headbone (nteractfve^

CON1ACT: 800-267-4709, http://Knimhead
PRICE: $19.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: Zt CD-ROM; System 7 or later, 25MHz 68040 or faster, SMB of RAM

— —

pkz and Auggie bomb their big audition with Screech records, and
;v* it smells like foul play is in the air. As soon as the duo is dragged
^ offstage, they’re grabbed by two big dudes from “the Agency” and
^ dropped in a recycling dumpster of orange gurgling goo that sends
. them right into Dimension Q to rescue a few lost agents. You have to
- help !z (short for Isabelle) and her robot, Auggie, rescue the missing
^ agents, find the XT-10 probe, and get back their music. Warning:
Some of the puzzles are harder than the month-old gum wad stuck
to me bottom of your desk.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 6 and up

LIKES: ‘‘I liked that the voices were kind oTscreechy^ndthe^^^
hothing much else, because I couldn't play the game
DISLIKES: “No one could figure out how to do the password,

and the clues were not much
help.” ■ Holly

“I didn’t like this game that
much* because I really didn’t
get the point” ■ Brian

SOUND ADVICE: “I wom

take out the password so
people can play;" ■ Daniel

FINAL REPORT: The open-
ing code was too tough for our
young sleuths to crack.

The Time Warp of Dr. Brain

PUBLISHER: Sierra
CONTACT: 800-757-7707, http://www.sierra.com
PRICE: $39.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, 68040 or faster, 8MB of RAM

D r. Brain slips up while testing his latest theory, the Space-Time
Oiscontinuum, and sends himself on a one-way trip back in
time. To help the wisecracking doctor find his way back, you hay©
to solve more than 600 brain-busting puzzles in 10 different 3D
worlds. As your survival Instincts kick in, you’ll strive to be the
dominant amoeba ihithd^ soup and sign your way id

success against a gifted monkey in a frantic word challenge. Three
levels of game difficulty and random puzzle regeneration will; have
you racking your brain every time you play.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 5 to adult

LIKES: “The games are really cool and fun. I like playing Lizards and
Eggs.^’« Holly

“The games had great graphics. They were also funny." ■ Michael
DISLIKES: “There are some complicated games that were hard
figure out.” ■ Max

“I didn’t like that the meaning of the
game is a scientist who kills aliens. What
a wreck.” ■ Brian

SOUND ADVIOE: “Give some edu-
cational questions, and when you get
enough ppintSi then you can play.”

■ Hilary

FINAL REPORT: It’s not brain surgery,
but if s almost as hard.

Drawing Discoveries

PUBLISHER: Brainstorm^

CONTACT: 888-427-2467, http://www.brainstormfun.com
PRICE: $29.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.1 or later, 68040 or
faster, 10MB of RAM

A rt is the draw in this CD-ROM masterpiece that will have kids
sketching giraffes and spouting Swahili as they gather facts on
the geography and people of Africa. Fifteen half-hour, step-by-step
drawing lessons show young artists how to draw animals and
people from three different regions of Africa. Drawing lessons are
sweetened with informative QuickTime movies, a sprinkling of
Swahili, and a brief guide to drawing styles and terms. Kids color in
their pictures using a 24-color paint palette or print them out in black
and white for coloring off-screen.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 3 and up

LIKES: “I liked the whole program. The best part is that it teaches
you how to draw.” ■ Alfonso

“The giraffe does not tell you what to do; it suggests what you
could do.” ■ Hilary

“I liked the way It taught you how to draw. The animals you draw,
it tells you where they’re from.” ■ Michael

DISLIKES: “I didn’t like that there weren’t many animals to draw
from one area.” ■ Eric

“I did not dislike anything.

1 thought everything was
coo!.” ■ Holly

SOUND ADVICE: “Give
the color part a bucket to
color the whole part.” ■ Daniel
FINAL REPORT: The box

office draw of the season.

82 MacADD/CT

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W hen the prerelease version of Headbone
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made its way to our offices, Dan, our reviews editor, was
already begging for a sneak peek. So, we let him borrow
Iz and Auggie for the weekend.

Monday morning the guy wouldn't shut up about it Not
only are the puzzles challenging but Iz and Auggie also
have that comedic edge that attracts adults and kids, he
says. Dan is still pleading for the final version, and any and
aii Iz and Auggie propaganda that gets sent our way.

Based on his enthusiastic review, we thought the kids
would rate the final disc a freakin’ awesome. But, this bright
group of 1 0-year-olds couldn’t make it past the title’s first real
puzzle—^ code they had to break by reorganizing parts of a
musical message to its original state. Since the kids couldn’t
get past this puzzle, they couldn’t get to the rest of the game.

What a shame. The puzzles are Indeed difficult, but not
impossible with the help of an adult Even better, the char-
acters and dialogue are hip and humorous — a nice break
from the smarmy pap that perpetuates this young-loving
industry. Despite the kids’ rock-bottom rating of Headbone’s
first title to feature a female (applause, applause), we
recommend that parents check it out, if not to play with their
kids, then to enjoy without them. —Nikki Echler

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how to

Open your heart (and your Mac) to OpenDoc and the world can be yours.

I

Hot Tip:

Make an alias of the
Stationery folder and place
it in the Apple Menu folder
in the System Folder. When
you want to start a new
document, you’ll be able to
“tear off” a new piece of
Stationery easily, without
having to dig through a
cluttered desktop.

n the last year, OpenDoc and Live Objects have been touted as
some of the most promising of Apple’s new technologies (see
“OpenDoc Rocks,” Sept/ 96 , p36). Still, the details seem
nebulous: What can you actually do with these Objects and
Docs? Well, how about creating a little love note,
one that incorporates text, graphics, sound, a
QuickTime movie, and even a live Web browser?
Top that. Hallmark!

The tricky part about working with Live
Objects is that it’s sort of the reverse of the way
we’re used to working on the computer, which, if
you think about it, is really the reverse of the way
we work without a computer. If we were to follow
the application model into the real world, we’d
write on one page, draw on another page, make a
graph on another, and then try to glue it all togeth-
er. Seems strange, doesn’t it? Yet that’s how we’ve
been working. With OpenDoc, you begin with a

EDITORS LET YOU, WELL, EDIT. OpenDoc places an Editors folder in your System
folder. Editors let you you see, as well as change, the content in a document.

piece of Stationery. When you
want to do something to your
pi^e, you drag the relevant
Live Object to it — ^whether it
be a drawing part or a p^e
layout part or even a Web
browser — and do the work.

Once you get the hang of it,
you’ll wonder why you ever
worked any other way.

Before you start creating,
you’ll need to get OpenDoc
(currently at version 1.1) from
either the OpenDoc Web site
< http ://www. apple .
opendoc.com> or the March
MacAddict disc. (It is also
included with System 7.6.) The
OpenDoc Installer will place a
folder titled Editors in the
System Folder (where it needs
to stay) and a Stationery folder
(where all the Stationery
resides) on your hard drive. YOU’LL SEE THIS FOLDER OFTEN. To
OpenDoc will look for work with a part, you’ll need to drag It
Stationery in the Stationery from this folder onto your document,
folder, so although you may be

tempted to move this folder around, for now leave it where it is.
IMPORTANT: Install OpenDoc first, before any parts, other-
wise these parts may create their own Stationery folders, different
from the (main) one OpenDoc itself needs.

Here’s the software and files you’ll need
for this project other than OpenDoc:

Find the
tools you
need on

The Disc or
download
them from
the Web.

■ A container (a part that can have other parts embedded in it). In
this case, the container is Digital Harbor’s Wav, a word processor that
includes Corda Technologies’ C-TextBox. You can get a demo (and
order a full copy) of Wav at <httpy/www.dharbor.com>.

■ Hutchings Software’s Rapid-I Button, which allows you to make
chckable buttons. Download a demo or order the full product at
<httpy/www.hutchings-software.com> .

■ Apple’s OpenDoc Essentials Kit, which contains these OpenDoc
viewers (they allow you to read OpenDoc parts): Apple 3DMF Viewer,
^ple Audio, i^ple Button, Apple Draw, and Apple Image Viewer. This
pack^e is included in System 7.6 or can be downloaded from i^ple’s
OpenDoc Web site. You also should download the Apple QuicWime
Viewer from the Web site.

■ Cyberdog, Apple’s OpenDoc Web browser. You can find this on The
Disc or at <http://cyberdog.apple.com>.

■ Content. You’ll need a QuickTime movie, a stiU from the movie (in
MoviePlayer, go to File>Export and choose “Movie to Picture”), and
a sound file, saved in AIFF or WAV format. (We used Matthew
Lindberg’s “Valentine,” the second runner up in our QuickTime movie
contest (Dec/ 96 , p50).

Apple’s Web site is a good place to find parts, but timely updates
are best found at <http://www.partbank.com> and <http://www.cc.
gatech.edu/people/home/mpinkert/opendoc/Parts.html>.
Fortunately, live Objects are cheap and easy to download. To install
them, simply place the Editor and Stationery (each Live Object should
come with both) in their respective folders. Voila! You’re ready to
work with the new part, and you didn’t even have to restart your Mac.

84 MacADD/CT

r

Make and Address the Card

Double-click a piece of Stationery from Wav. That will give you a blank page with a
' custom row of menus and a toolbar across the top of the window. You can begin typing at the
insertion point (it looks like a blinking line) to address the card. To add a bit of style to the
“Dear box, drag C-TextBox (which, unlike Wav, specializes in text boxes for sidebars and
‘ titles) into the document from the Stationery folder (It will turn into an empty square).
< Alternately, you can click on
the little triangle on Wav’s tool-
bar and select your Stationery
folder— all your parts will be
displayed in Wav’s parts dock,

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your document from there.

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them from a menu or a parts dock (the icons in the tabbed header).

HERE WE’VE TYPED IN TEXT and
dragged C-Textbox onto the document.

Jazz Up the Greeting

Once you drag C-TextBox onto the page, you’ll see a high-
lighted area. Click within the part’s box to get an outline of the
area with resizing handles, similar to those in Adobe Photoshop.
Use the resizing handles to change the size and shape of the
box. To drag the area to a new location In the document, move
the cursor into the area, wait until It changes to a hand icon, and
then drag the area. Now drag the text that you typed in Step 1
into the new box. Click on the border of the C-TextBox box to gain
access to the C-TextBox specific menu. Note how the options in
the menu bar change; this may be confusing at first, but it’s no
different from what happens when you switch between “regular”
applications. You can change the style and font of the text, and
the fill color of the text box, to something more jazzy.

DRAG YOUR TEXT into C-Textbox, click on the box’s
border to get a new menu, and start adding pizazz.

Margin Note:

Accessing part-
specific menus can
be tricky because the
borders often are
only about one pixel
wide. Clicking within
the part’s box often,
but not always,
allows you to edit
content. To resize,
you need to find that
sweet spot on the
border. Patience,
my friend.

Add a QuickTime Movie

To set up that “spedal” QuickTime movie, first capture a frame of the
movie In PICT format (MoviePlayer — included with System software — can
do this). Save this somewhere convenient. Drag the Rapid-1 Button part
onto the page to create a blank button and drag it anywhere on the doc-
ument. (To edit a Rapid-! button, you need to Option-click on it). You can
either drag your PICT onto the button or Import the graphic from the Label
menu. You may need to resize the button. You can customize the text on
the button also through the Label menu, and you can play with the but-
ton’s appearance (3D or not 3D, etc.) through, surprisingly, the
Appearance menu

HERE’S A PLAIN OLD BUHON PART before it has
been modified or linked to a movie.

Make the Button
Do Something

Once you’ve got the look you like, go to the Actions I
menu, and set what you want the button to do when clicked.
Here, we have a QuickTime file all ready to go, so choose '
“Link to File” and Rapid-I will give you a standard Open j
box. Select your movie file,

click on the button. Presto!
Interactivity. (Remember,
though, the movie doesn’t
really reside within the Wav
document, only a refer-
ence to the file does; it’s
like an alias and Is similarly
location-dependent. This
method of linking also
works for sounds and
Internet addresses.)

Link to Cyberitem...

Link to File.

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Link to Sound...

WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED
dinking around with the
button’s appearance, go to
the Actions menu and pick
what you want the button to
do— in this case, we want if
to play a QuickTime movie
when clicked.

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Add a Sound

Add a Love Poem

To include a song, repeat the same steps for making a button. Put your own
drawing on the button by dragging into the document the Apple Draw part. This
will give you a draw box (the default has an ugly grid which you can get rid of with
the “Hide Graphics Grid” option in the Options menu). Clicking on the box’s bor-
der will call up a palette of basic drawing tools. Once you’ve made a note, select
all, Cut or Copy it, Option-click the button, and Paste. You’ll then need to delete
the original draw box. Now you can edit the text and appearance as with the other
button. To have your musical clip play when the button is clicked, go to the Actions

menu, select “Link to
File,” and choose your
licks, you crazy cat.
Compatible sound for-
mats include Snd, AIFF,
uLAW, and WAV.

THE STEPS FOR ADDING a sound are similar to those for
adding a QuickTime movie. Here we’ve drawn a graphic
to put on our button using the AppieDraw part.

What would a love note be without a poem?
As in Step 3, you can set up a C-TextBox box,
color it, and manipulate the text as you wish.
You can also add a drop shadow with the
“Shadow...” option in the Table menu. Quick
tip: You should look for a poem particularly
appropriate for your love. No one appreciates
recycled sentiment.

C-TEXTBOX LETS YOU DO MORE than just create
color backgrounds for text. WeTI add a drop
shadow to the box containing our love poem.

Add a Web Link

Send the Card

For a truly interactive touch, embed a
Cyberdog browser window into your love
note. Simply drag a Cyberdog part onto
your Wav document, and a real, live
Cyberdog browser will appear, which you
can resize and reposition as you would any
other part. To link this browser to a particu-
lar site, just type in the desired URL (why
not your home page?) into the Location
window. If your love holds onto your card,
you can update the site and send new
messages as you dream them up.

ADD A LIVE LINK TO A WEB PAGE and you’ll be
able to send updated messages to your love.

Sending the completed card, and ensuring that your love can see all of its compo-
nents, Isn’t as easy as sending a text file. Without System 7.6 or an OpenDoc-equipped
previous System, your inamorata won’t be able to open your missive. Even with
OpenDoc, the right viewers need to be included with the Wav document to avoid the
OpenDoc equivalent of Netscape Navigator’s broken plug-in icon. The surest method is
to send the viewers with the document (or demo versions of the editors — available at the
relevant companies’ Web sites, or on The Disc; these turn into viewers after 30 days).
There’s no need to send the Stationery, too, unless you want to give your heartthrob the
ability to edit your work (now there’s true love). You’ll also have to send the linked multi-
media elements, such as the QuickTime movie and sound file. The linked elements
should remain in the same folder relative to the document; the QuickTime movie you’ve

used In the document is not
really embedded there but
only referred to, as an alias
refers to a file. If, say, you
e-mail the document and
movie separately, and they
are placed in far-flung corners
of a hard drive, there’s no way
for them to find each other
again. As for the viewers,
however, as long as they’re
on the same system,
OpenDoc will find them.
Therefore, you won’t need to
send installation instructions

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A little bit here, a little bit there: a hodgepodge of tips, hints, and other tricks,

A few bits and pieces of Web authoring news, tips, and
advice have accumulated over the months, so let’s take a
break from formal lessons and clear the professor’s desk.
You’ll find tips and hints for speeding access to your Web

page, uploading new pages, letting visitors send files via FTP from
your site, and more. You’re bound to find something yummy and
useful below. Next month we’ll get back to giving you yet another
in-depth tutorial.

Hot Tip:

Always remem-
ber to use the
height and width
attributes on
all graphics.

Planning for a Browser

One of the complications of designing a Web site is planning how
your pages will look when displayed within the various browsers.
What looks good in Netscape Navigator may be almost
unreadable in Microsoft Internet Explorer — and most
Webmasters don’t even consider the other browsers. The
more you know about which browsers people use to visit
your site, the better you can plan your pages.

A recent report that appeared in Robert Seidman’s Online
Insider (<http:/Avww.netguidemag.com>) says that in 1996,

Netscape Navigator held 80 percent of the browser market,
Microsoft Internet Explorer held 7 percent, and other, smaller
browsers comprised the remaining 13 percent. Looking to the
future, the report claimed that Microsoft Internet Explorer will grow
firom 7 percent in 1996 to 21 percent by 1999, but not at the
expense of Netscape Navigator, which still will own 70 percent of the
market. Rather, Internet Explorer will eat up most of the other
browsers, shrinking their share to 9 percent by 1999-
If the report is accurate, that is.

FIND THE
SHAREWARE
mentioned
on The Disc.

Putting Low-Resolution Images First

In order to speed your visitors’ apparent access to your pages,
take advantage of the Navigator-only image attribute LOWSRC, which
lets you specify an alternative, low-resolution image, which Navigator
loads and displays first. After that image is (quickly) downloaded,
Navigator replaces it with the high-resolution image. This is a good
replacement for interlaced GIF images, which can be unreadable until

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anti-aliased text.

most of the image has downloaded. Here’s the format for the tag:

<IMG SRC=“sophia.gif ’ LOWSRC=“lowres_sophia.jpeg”>

See how we’ve pointed to our impressive large graphic with the
usual SRC attribute, and the “light” graphic with LOWSRC?

Your LOWSRC image could be simply fewer colors, could be
grayscale instead of color, or even could be a really tiny black-and-
white bitmap im^e.

You needn’t create high- and low-resolution versions of the
same image — ^your low-res image can be completely different. Why
in the world would you want to do that? Imagine a low-resolution
navigation image map — ^perhaps even in black and white, all text
on a plain background — that downloads really fast. Nothing is
more annoying than waiting three minutes for a full-screen site
map, for nothing more than the privilege of moving on to a page
with actual content.

You even can pair LOWSRC and SRC images for a really cheap
animation effect.

The LOWSRC attribute has drawbacks, however. First, only
Netscape Navigator 2.0 and later support it (though other browsers
simply ignore it). Second, you must keep two copies of images, the
full version and a low-resolution alternative.

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Revisited: Upioading

In the December 1996 issue (pl02), we discussed how to
upload the various HTML and GIF files to your Web host to create
your site. Here are a few tips on how to upload new and changed
files to an existing site — ^something you should do regularly to keep
visitors coming back.

Just as when you first uploaded files, launch Fetch 0im
Matthews’ shareware FTP utility) and find the upload directory on
your Web site. This time, though, click on the date column in the
Fetch directory window to display the directory’s contents by date —
it works just like the Finder. Take note of the date of the newest file.

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in the background.

Now switch to the Finder and open the folder in which you keep
the local copies of your HTML files — that is, the folder correspond-
ing to the directory you see in Fetch — and click the date column to

display files by date. Compare the files at the top of the window with
those in the Fetch window. All the files on your Mac that are newer
than the newest file in the Fetch window have to be uploaded. Select
these newer Mac files in the Finder and drag them into the Fetch
window. You’ll need to repeat the process for each directory, com-
paring the dates of the files in each directory in the Fetch window
with the dates of the files in the Finder.

Unix warning: On Unix servers, new files overwrite identically
named existing files, without any warning. If you’re working with
Unix commands, try the -i option to toggle interactive prompting.
Warning: Don’t trust the modification dates that the Finder lists for
folders. A folder's date may not reflect the date of its newest con-
tents; a folder’s date may be older or newer than the newest file
inside it. The only way to be sure is to open the folder and look at
the individual files.

You’ll also need to keep track of files you’ve deleted, which
isn’t as simple. My crude method: As I remove pages or graphics
from the Web site, I drag the local copies of the files into a folder
called Delete from ISP. Then when I’m working with Fetch to
update my Web site, I look at what’s in that Delete folder to deter-
mine what to delete from the site. Drop me a line if you have tips
on better ways....

It’s especially important that you log on to your site with a Web
browser and double check all the pages to which you’ve made
changes. It’s really easy to make little mistakes, such as forgetting
a graphic.

Offline Reading

I’ve read so many HTML and Web books that my optometrist is
opening a Joseph 0. Holmes wing, but dam it, they just keep coming
out with good ones. My current favorite is Deconstructing Web
Graphics (New Riders, about $45, ISBN 1-56205-641-7) by Lynda
Weinman, who wrote the wonderful Designing Web Graphics^
a book that taught me almost everything I know on the subject.

Deconstructing Web Graphics has a lot to say about graphics
but cuts a much wider swath. Taking a look at 11 top-notch Web
sites, including HotWired, typoGRAPHIC, and Internet Underground
Music Archive, Weinman digs into the process behind topics such as

low-bandwidth design, Java and
Shockwave, frames, photography
for the Web, navigation, HTML
tricks, and lots more. Although the
coverage is more broad than deep,
it’s remarkably useful to see how
various Web technologies and ideas
are put into practice in the real
world by real people. The book
offers lots of tips and pointers to
other books and resources. It’s also
the first Web-related
book that’s as attractively
designed as the sites that
it discusses.

The only serious flaw
is that many of the
graphics have been
shrunk to thumbnail size,

making many of them so small as to be unreadable.
Otherwise, the book is a gem and should be read by every
serious Webmaster.

How to Let Visitors Send Files
via FTP From Your Site

You’d like to make files available on your Web site for
visitors to download? We previously discussed how to make
downloadable sounds (Feb/97, p96), and you can do the
same thing with just about any file. It’s quite simple. Just
add the file’s URL to an FTP hyperlink statement, in the
same way that you create any hyperlink: <A HREF ftp://ftp.
interport.net/~joholmes/file>. As you can see, an FTP \JBL
begins with “ftp” rather than the more familiar “http”.

Sharew

A s I write this, Francois Pottier’s Big Brother is running in the back-
ground examining all the links in my Web site, local and remote (637
and counting) over my PPP connection. This incredibly useful utility tells
me that some of my remote links aren’t working any more, that some
domain names no longer exist, which files are missing, and even which
documents have moved (and wherel). It also checks local links. Big
Brother is simply indispensable and easily worth its $1 0 shareware fee. No
site, large or small, should be without it.

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net/-joholmes/graphic$>) plus the name of the file. Note that it was only by
asking the ISP that i could tell that “public-html” wasn’t part of the path.

To construct the correct URL, use an FTP application such as
Fetch to locate the file on your server. Use the server name you
see in Fetch’s window tide, and the path name that Fetch reveals
in its pop-up menu. Your home directory will probably start
with a tilde (~).

A visitor’s click on the hyperlink will download the file
according to the browser’s particular method: Netscape
Navigator will download the file itself, whereas Microsoft
Internet Explorer, if the helper applications are set up, will
launch your FTP application to download it.

These instructions will work in most cases, but you mmt
test the link. If you run into snags, contact your Internet
service provider.

R eader Luke Pacholski writes to dispute my assertion in
a previous column that progressive JPEG images —
which act something like interlaced GIF images — can be
displayed only by Netscape Navigator. Luke’s right.
Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 2.0 and later also can
display progressive JPEGs. We’ll explore the use of
interlaced JPEGs in a future installment.

Download the Beta!

It’s tough to write about the downloadable beta software avail-
able on the Web, because by the time this column hits your mailbox,
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But you should at least know that beta versions of Adobe PageMill 1 .0
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buggy. For the latest info, check the companies’ Web sites. Also
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if they are distributing beta software. Take care, however, when
instaUing beta software on your Mac. We recommend backing up
your system first and, if possible, installing the beta software on a
removable cartridge. —Joseph 0. Holmes

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Qi Why does the Finder insist on appending the word
alias to the file names of aliases? I’m not stupid; when
I see a file name in italics, I know it’s an alias, so I don’t
need a suffix to tell me. A long time ago I came across
instructions for hacking the System or Finder so that
when aliases were made they didn’t automatically
receive the suffix. Can this still be done?

A Rather than hack the System, I prefer to use Rolf Braun’s
Finder Options or Richard Burgess’ Hidden Finder Features, two
very similar freeware control panels that enable useful features that
Apple added in System 7.5.2 (and later releases) but never imple-
mented. The feature you’ll really like is the ability to create aliases

As a Mac addict, you owe it to yourself to let vendors know when you are buying their .
wares so that they will continue to develop Mac products. Ihe trouble Is, sales of hybrid
packages are typically tallied as Windows sales, even though these discs work under
Windows and the Mac OS. As a result, the true Mac software sales figures are under-
reported, making the Mac a seemingly less lucrative platform for which to develop new
products. To combat this product, always fill out and return registration cards indicating
that you purchased the program to run on a Mac. Not only does this help vendors
compute true Mac sales figures, but also it ensures that the developers know how to
contact you if they ever release updates. If the registration card doesn’t specifically ask
for this information, write it in.

by pressing Control while you dr^ and drop a file from one location
to another. When you release the mouse button, an alias is created
with the same name as the original and no alias suffix. In a related
feature, press Command-R to reveal the original item of an alias.

I’m also partial to another feature: Pressing Command-Delete
instantly moves a selection to the Trash. For somewhat snappier
performance, toggle the dis-
play of zoom rectangles that
appear when opening or clos-
ing windows. Best of all, sta-
bility isn’t an issue, because
these control panels merely
enable features already in the
Finder. It’s my hope that Apple
will sanction these features
and provide an official control
panel in an upcoming release
of the Mac OS.

On a related note. I’m a
big fan of Peter Kaplan’s free-
ware control panel Alias Style,
which allows you to specify
the font style in which aliases
appear. Why put up with bor-
ing, hard-to-read italics when
you can have other, equally
hard-to-read font stjdes?

Finder Options

Sassy Software Pfesents...

Finder Options

2 0 By Rolf Braun

1^ Control-Drag to Make Hlias
“Reueal Original” in File Menu
1^ Command-Delete Moues to Trash
n Disable Zoom Rects
□ No Translucent Dragging

Copyright 1996 Rolf Braun.

Changes take effect on restart.

FINDER OPTIONS enables several undocumented features.

iHl Rlias Style

□ Dold

□ Italic

□ Underline

□ Outline
n Shadoui

□ Condensed

Peter Kaplan v1 .0

ALIAS STYLE gives you complete

92 MacADDICT

Oi I just upgraded to a Mac with a 1GB hard drive.
When I transferred everything from my 150MB hard
drive, I noticed a strange thing: Files magically got
bigger. For example, an alias on my 150MB drive was
only 3K, but it takes up 20K on my 1GB drive. Is
something wrong?

A Nope. Unfortunately, that’s the way things work on the Mac.
Regardless of a drive’s size, it’s divided into approximately the same
number of invisible blocks when initialized. The larger the drive, the
larger these blocks. Large files span multiple blocks, but tiny files
such as aliases are often smaller than the bloclc themselves.
Because a block can contain information about only one file, if a
given file doesn’t fill a block, the leftover is wasted space.

Select a file on your hard drive and choose Get Info
(Command-I) from the File menu. The line marked Size reports
two numbers. The first one is how much physical disk space the
file consumes (with small files, it’s equal to the block size). The
second number, in parentheses, is the logical size of the file and
is always smaller because it represents the actual number of bytes
in the file. The difference between these two numbers is wasted
space (when doing the math, don’t forget there are 1,024 bytes in
a kilobyte). If you have a large number of small files, you end up
with a lot of wasted space.

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RECLAIM THE DISK SPACE wasted by small files in large blocks by
partitioning your hard drive with Apple’s HD SC Setup.

0 I have several movies in AVI format that 1 down-
loaded from my friend’s Web site. Is there any way to
convert these PC-style movies into QuickTime movies?

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[ Find Original ]

A You betcha. From our generous benefactors in Redmond
comes Video for Windows, a free Mac utility that converts movie
files between QuickTime and AVI formats widi any of the following
compressors: Microsoft RLE, Microsoft Video 1, or Microsoft Full
Frame. A patched version is available that handles movies com-
pressed with the Intel Indeo 3.2 Video CODEC.

Qi My Mac won’t show long filenames in the Finder
or in Open dialog boxes. How do I fix this?

A You can use up to 31 characters to name files, but in the
Finder and in the Open dialog box you can only see some of the
characters, even with System 7.5. The missing part of the name is
denoted with an ellipses. (Note: this only happens if the characters
take up more than a certain amount of space. For example, if you
have a file name that consists of 31 character / letters, you’ll be
able to see the full file name. But if you use m instead, you’ll only
be able to see 17 of the characters.

FILES TAKE UP MORE SPACE on larger disks. The difference in file
sizes reported in the Get Info window is wasted space that you can
reclaim by partitioning your hard drive.

The only way to reclaim this wasted disk space is to partition
your hard disk into several smaller volumes, each of wluch will
appear on the Finder’s desktop as its own icon. Because smaller
volumes mean smaller blocks, you waste less space. To partition
a SCSI hard drive, you need a utility such as Apple’s HD SC Setup
7.3.5 or later, which comes with the Mac OS. To partition an IDE
hard drive, you must buy a third-party utility such as FWB
Software’s Hard Disk Toolkit (415-463-3500, <http://
www.fwb.com>) or Casa Blanca Works’ Drive 7 (415-461-2227).

If you are setting up a mailing list on the Internet, be sure that each
posting to the list ends with Information about how to subscribe and
unsubscribe. By including instructions for subscribing, you’ll reap new
subscribers when current subscribers forward postings to other people
who may be interested in signing up for your mailing list. The Evangelist
{<http://www.evangelist.macaddlct.com>). run by Apple Fellow Guy
Kawasaki, gains many new subscribers thanks to a simple, three-line
blurb at the bottom of each posting. By Including instructions for
unsubscribing, you’ll reduce the number of e-mails you’ll receive asking,
“How do I get off this freakin’ list?”

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ask us

: 111 1 1 1 ] 1 1 1* ■ UiJl* I

on PCs

I n the December 1996 installment of this column, I stated that it’s
not possible to run Mac programs on a PC. Seeing how I
managed to put my head firmly up my ass, readers were quick to
congratulate me on my new career as a contortionist. As it turns out,
a company called ARDI (505-766*9115) has developed Executor, a
software emulator for Wintel machines that it claims runs 60 to 80
percent of Mac programs. Because ARDI’s engineers reverse-
engineered most of the Mac OS, Executor doesn’t require Mac
ROMs or a System file. I haven’t tried it, but many readers said they
were impressed by the free demo they downloaded from ARDI’s
Web site at <http://www.ardi.com>.

While we’re revisiting the topic of using Mac programs
and disks on the PC, I should mention a few other useful
utilities. Conversions Plus from DataViz (800-733-0030,
<http://www.dataviz.com>) translates most word processing,
spreadsheet, database, and graphics files on high-density Mac
floppies and any Mac SCSI media. For example, it can convert a
ClarisWorks spreadsheet to a Lotus 1-2-3 document for use on a
PC. If you want to read and write Mac disks on a PC without
translating file formats, check out DataViz’s MacOpener or Pacific
Microelectronics' (800-628-3475, <http://www.netusa.com>)
Mac-ln-DOS.

Qi How can I transfer a desktop pattern from one
Mac to another?

Franke’s freeware SoundApp), but because startup sounds are
burned into read-only memory, you can’t change them. However,
you can place a double-clickable System 7 sound file in the
Startup Items folder in your System Folder and it will play when
the Finder appears.

Q I recently installed a Level 2 cache in my Power
Mac 7500/100, and now the computer won’t start.
Could the cache be the cause of this trouble?

A Absolutely. Either the cache isn’t firmly seated in its slot or
you may be one of the unlucky Power Mac 7500 owners affected
by a problem Apple recently identified. According to Apple, a
limited number of 256K L2 cache DIMMs (part numbers
M3808LL/A and 661-1035) sold by Apple may not be compatible
when installed in a Power Mac 7500. If you have an Apple-brand
L2 cache exhibiting this behavior, contact an Apple-authorized
service provider or call 800-767-2775 to request a free replace-
ment under a repair program that terminates on May 31, 1997.
If you have a third-party L2 cache with this problem, ask your
vendor about repair or replacement policies.

Qi My PowerBook is an insomniac. It sleeps for
awhile but then wakes up on its own even though
there are no open applications or internet connec-
tions at the time that it wakes. Why can’t it catch a
iittle shut-eye?

A The easiest way to transfer a single pattern is to open the
Desktop Pattern control panel, scroll to the pattern you want, then
drag that pattern to the desktop, where it appear as a picture
clipping file. Copy this file to a floppy and drag it into the Desktop
Pattern control panel on another Mac.

To transfer a lot of patterns, copy the Desktop Pattern Prefs
file from the Preferences folder in the System
Folder of your Mac, then open it and the “receiv-
ing” Desktop Pattern Prefs file from the other
Mac with ResEdit. Double-click the ppat resource
of each file to open their windows with thumb-
nails of each pattern sorted by ID number.

Command-click to select the patterns you want
from the source file, copy them to the Clipboard,
paste them into the receiving file, and close both
files to save your changes.

Qi I have noticed that different Macs make different
startup sounds. I don’t particularly like the startup
sound on my Performs, but I love the Quadra’s. Is there
any way I can change the Performa’s startup sound
without using a control panel such as SoundMaster
(which is free for noncommercial use)?

A For the most complete collection of startup and crash
sounds fi'om different Macs, check out David Johnson’s Web site
The Mac Line at <http://www.rpi.edu/-johnsdlO/macline>. You
can download these sounds for playing on your own Macintosh
(you may need a player/conversion utility such as Norman

A Check the PowerBook Setup control panel and make sure
you deselect the Wake On Ring checkbox. If this checkbox is
selected and your PowerBook’s modem is connected to a phone
fine, the computer stirs itself firom slumber whenever the phone
rings so that you don’t miss an important fax or e-mail.

Owen W. Linzmayer (<askaddict@aol.com>, <http://www.netcom.
com/-owenink>) is a San Francisco-based freelance writer and the
author of The Mac Bathroom Reader. Please submit technical ques-
tions or helpful tips directly via e-mail or c/o MacAddict, 150 North
Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005.

Auril Fools’

Bonus

I n the spirit of April Fools’ Day, this issue’s CD-ROM contains
several classic practical joke programs from my book
The Macintosh Joker. Have a blast playing tricks on your friends,
but remember, paybacks are always worse, so please use these
programs responsibly. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

PowerBook Setup

Modem

(•) internal Modem O External Modem
□ Wake On Ring

7.3.1

IF THE WAKE ON RING checkbox is selected, your PowerBook may suffer from insomnia.

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72

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Apple Computer, Inc.

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APS Technologies

108

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www.apstch.com/

Bungle Software

OBC

800-295-0600

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CE Software

11

800-523-7638

www.cesoft.com

Claris (Apple software)

2

800-482-6376 #1421

www.apple.com

ClubMac

102

800-CLUBMAC

www.club-mac.com

COMPU AGE

104

800-799-4MAC

www.compu-age.com

Compu.D

107

800-929-9333

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CRA Systems

61

800-375-9000

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Digital Harbor. L.C.

13

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DrlveSavers

111

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Earthlink

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Epson

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Eritech International

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Europa Software

67

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LaCie Limited

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Leister Productions

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Mac Man Computer Warehouse

100

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69

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47

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Micro Outlet

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MicroMac Technology

83

800-600-6227

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New World Computing

77

888-692-7529

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NewSoft, Inc.

5.7

888-729-1017

www.tophat.com

Nisus Software Inc.

21

800-943-5126

www.nisus-soft.com

Other World Computing

105

800-275-4576

www.macsales.com

Panasonic

19

888-726-2746

www.truphoto.com

PowerProduction

70

800-457-0383

www.powerproductlon.com

Software Plus

91

1-800-377-9943

www.spaini.com

Sonic Desktop Software

12

800-454-1900

www.sonlcdesktop.com

Sonnet Technologies

57

800-786-6260

www.sonnettech.com

Sony Electronics Inc.

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800-352-7669

www.sonv.com/technology

UMAX Computer Corporation

8

888-232-UMAX

www.supermac.com

United CD-ROM

99

800-864-8334

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111

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www.uce.com

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games

Mighty Marathon makers manufacture macabre multiplayer mayhem: Myth.

i MacSoft

Cankct; 800-229-2714;

What’s the big deal
about Quake? Sure, It’s “just” another
first-person perspective shoot-’em-up, but
this time, the monsters are composed of
polygons, not sprites. And the nailgun is a
kick in the pants — yes, it shoots nails.

" Werewolf vs.

I ".-Ski ^ m Comanche

N^Logic
Contact 800-8S8-1322;
nwalogj^c.c<

Werewolf vs. Comanche
is two games in one — both are helicopter
sims based on the same engine, but one’s a
U.S. machine and the other is Russian.
Although the two helicopters are separate
games, in a multiplayer scenario, you can
play the Comanche against the Werewolf.
Pretty nifty — but you definitely want a
joystick (and possibly a throttle) to play.

B ungie Software released three games
last year: Marathon Infinity, Abuse,
and Weekend Warrior. While they all
bear the Bungie logo, only the
Marathon-level editors were devel-
oped entirely in-house: Abuse’s original
version was developed by Crack dot Com;
Weekend Warrior was written by Pangea
Software; and the Marathon Infinity scenario
was created by Double Aught. We loved all
three games, but we can’t imagine that the
creative team behind Marathon spent 1996
twiddling their collective thumbs.

Nope. They’ve been working on another
genre-busting game: Myth. It’s a tactical game,
but unlike TacOps, for instance, action is
in real time, not turn-based. Instead
of a flat 2D board, or an isometric
board as in Maxis’ Sim City, the
landscape is a true 3D object. And
unlike Marathon, this game takes
place in a fantasy realm, not outer
space. Like most Bungie games, Myth
wi\[ have great network games;

Bungie will incorporate a metaserver
protocol into the game to find other
players over the Internet.

To get the meat on Myth, we spoke with
Jason Jones, Bungie’s director of research and
development.

grenade blowing up the guy that’s attacking
him, and flinging everybody through the air
before he said, “OK, fantasy can be cool too.”

MA: What is Myth’s backstory?

JJs The fantasy world cycles through good
and evil over a period of a thousand years. At the
beginning, a hero rescues the world fi’om the
clutches of evil and tyranny. And then there’s
half a millennia of fight and happiness and
goody-two-shoes. And then that same hero
comes back, but as the destroyer instead of the
savior. The player comes in at the end of the
cycle to rescue the world from the last 500 years
of plague and oppression.

MA: You’ll run into opposi-
tion, of course?

Jason Jones

M A: Why the return to a
fantasy realm?

JU: The way you’re going to turn
the tide and bring the fight back is
by destroying that one guy who’s been
around for a thousand years — half of
the time as the savior of the world and
half of the time as the destroyer. When
that hero banished the darkness himself a mil-
lennium ago, he destroyed a bunch of artifacts
of great power, hid the ones he couldn’t destroy,
and entombed an entire evil race under
the ground because he couldn’t
kill them — he just stuffed them
When things start away. He retrieves the stash

500 years later and uses it

«IJI: Fantasy is harder
to pull off than science
fiction. Most people
think that a guy with a
big gun and some
robots and rockets flying
around is cool, but those
same people are skeptical of
a guy swinging around swords.

It’s taken extra work to get every-
body, even at Bungie, involved in the game.
There’s one guy here in particular who said,
“Fantasy?...That’s stupid!” It took his seeing
the swords swinging, hitting somebody, and
making blood fly out of him, and then a

going too fast, maybe it’s
time to break off and retreat,
not siow the game and gain
an unfair advantage.

to tear down the world
that he built 500 years
before. Along the way he
finds good guys and turns
them to evil.

MA: Shouldn’t the
hero have killed the evil
monsters at the start?

«l«l: In Myth, most of the very powerful sor-
cerers can’t be killed — cut them into pieces,
bury them in wildly different places, pack them
with salt, but eventually if somebody goes and
digs them all up, they’ll reanimate. So that’s

96 MacADDICT

FIND Myth
previews and
Warcraft II

MA; Do the Fallen Lords have different
fighting styles?

J J: Not really as such, not like the Ancient Art
of War. The generals themselves will not...now
that I think about it, they will. For instance, the
Deceiver’s great power is to control people’s
minds. T\vo years ago, one of the big armies of
the light just vanished and nobody knows why.
They had met the Deceiver, who took over that
whole army. When you fight the Deceiver, you’ll
be fighting troops to are about half dark and
half light. You’ll end up fighting units that you’re
familiar with as being friendly.

MA: Can you free them?

J J: It’s too late. Besides, that wouldn’t be any
fun! In this part of the game, you have to fight
against the troops of light — ^you’ve learned their
strengths but not necessarily their weaknesses.
So \rfien you get attacked by a bunch of (usually)
friendly units, it’ll just be a kick in the butt and
you’ll We to figure out tactics all over again.

MA: How does the game start?

J«l: You’re in control of a smaller force, which
is part of a larger battle; you get a very small, very
specific mission. As you progress, your goals get
more general and your responsibilities get much
larger. By the end of the game, you have to march
east into the dark-controlled area through all
their armies. At this point, you have a giant army;
as you go east, it gets smaller and smaller as
things get worse and worse. If you play on a dif-
ficulty level that’s matched to your skill, you’ll
end up winning the game with two soldiers left.

MA: How do you win?

J: You have to behead the evil guy and carry
his head across a giant map, then throw it into a
hole called the Great Devoid. This causes a huge
explosion to come out of the hole, ending the
game. So out of this army of tens of thousands
you started east with — of course, you won’t ever
have tens of thousands of people on your screen
at once — you’ll end up beheading the anti-hero
and have just one guy to lug the evil Leveller’s
head into the Great Devoid. It’ll be one guy
saying, “Yeah, I won!”

M A: Can you describe the gameplay?

«l J: We’re concentrating on the battle itself: the
fighting, the preparation, knowing where to dig
in, when to take the high ground, how to orga-
nize your guys. Terrain is important — ^from a tree
to a building to a hill — how you take advantage
of it to beat the other guy. It’s the difference
between fighting with a couple hundred guys,
crushed together with limbs flying everywhere,
and building your town and scouting out the area
around you. Scouting is still really important, but

97

what the anti-hero has done —

assembled around him six other people whom
he has bent to his will. They’re the most powerftil
sorcerers he’s been able to find in the whole
world — ^these are the Pantheon of Fallen Lords.
When you clash with another army, it will be
under ihe direct control of one of the lords, such
as Soul Blighter or the Faceless Man.

‘The sprites are
pre-rendered on
an SGI machine
—they are very
detailed 3D
models with
inverse kine-
matics and all
those fancy SGI
features. Then
we render them
out Into bitmaps
—that’s what

we use during the game so there can be 50, 60, or 100
people on the screen, whereas if they were built in polygons
on the fly, we wouldn’t be able to do that.” Here we see the
dwarf character from concept sketch to wire frame to full 3D.

maps on

, The Disc.

Here in the MacAddict offices, we haven’t
even finished playing Warcraft U: Beyond
the Dark Portal yet, but we’re sure you
have. We appreciate your tips on how to
get past dragons. Most of you recommend
upgrading archers to rangers and building
lots of guard towers. Figuring you’re
panting after Starcraft, we decided to fill up
The Disc (well, not quite...) with scenarios
created by you and your fellow Warheads.

Here are a few map-making tips: Start
with a small canvas before you work your
way up to the 128 x 128 masses. Refine
your skills before attempting such a huge
(and time-consuming) undertaking. YouTI
want to have a good idea of how you want
the landscape to look before you add even
one little-bitty island. Next, separate the
land from the sea, and remember that it’s
much easier see the relationship between
land and sea without any mountains or
trees added to the picture. Once you’ve
gotten the land where it should be, be sure
to add enough resources to your map. It’s
no fun trying to tauiid archers when there
are no trees for your peasants to chop,
or gold for them to
mine. Finally, be sure
you piaytest your
map before you
release it to the Net to
make sure your map
is winnable! - .

MA: What are the effects of being a
more tactical than strategic game?

«IJ: We’re toying with not letting the player
speed and slow the game because we don’t
want you to be able to slow it down when things
get tough. The game is never going to get
boring enough that you want to speed it up.
We’re trying to find that fine line where every-
thing is just about right. When things start going
too fast, maybe it’s time to break off and retreat,
not slow down the game and gain an unfair
advant^e. — Kathy^ Tafel

“Having more than 256 colors has a subtle
effect. In a game that has only 256 colors, you’ll
see an enemy that has green in his cloak, and
that green is going to be the exact same hue of
green of the grass, and it’s going to be the exact
same hue in the eyes of this other monster:
that’s because you’re in 8<bit. But in 16-bit,
every green is different. You reaily have 32,000
colors, not just 256.”

%Ws A typical problem with resource games
is that once you have all the right guys chop-
ping down trees or harvesting tiberium, you
just want to turn the crank for five minutes to
speed it up. Then when battle is joined, you
have to slow it down to see what’s coming.
Because our entire focus is on combat, battle,
attacking, preparing, executing, and winning
those battles — ^whether they are fittle skir-
mishes or the final giant tying together of a
couple hundred troops — the speed at which
the game progresses is going to be suited for
battle; That’s probably too slow for a resource
management game but just about right for the
speed at which the armies fight.

MA: Will the player be able to slow the
game anyway?

“The landscape is built out of polygons as the game
is running, it has a dynamic shadow map on it,
which lets the guys cast real shadows that go in the
opposite direction of the sun; [they’re] not just
circles hidden under their feet. When a Molotov
cocktail explodes, it lights the ground under it;
when the little flaming pieces fly out of the Molotov,
it lights those, too. When the lightening strikes it
creates a light map. The dark wizard is constantly
surrounded by this aura of swirling darkness as he
moves around. That’s all built in real time.’’

MA: Why not create a more resource-
oriented game?

JJ: We had a couple of choices when we
started the work on our next title at the beginning
of 1996. We originally started to create the next
generation of Marathon — ^it would have turned
out to be something like Quake, and it wouldn’t
have been done yet, either. The other thing we
thought of doing was a Warcraft- or a Conunand
& Conquer-type game. I’m glad we did neither.
We thought that both of those genres would
become crowded in the next year or two. As it
turns out, the real-time strategy genre has
become downright polluted, not just crowded.
It would be a mistake to be sitting on a Warcraft
look-alike right now. We’d feel really stupid if
we’d done that or a Quake game because
so many other people are worldng on it. And
Quake is done.

resource management, such
cutting trees or building forms, isn’t.

as

A group of thralls are seen
in three of the preset
formations: circle, encircle-
ment, and wedge. With the
Java-like scripting language
built into Myth, you’ll be able to create more prefab maneuvers, reprogram monsters,
or change the rate at which bits fly out of broken bodies.

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